The NBCC just announced this evening that Rae Armantrout's Versed (Wesleyan University Press). She is professor at UC-San Diego
From the Book:
while all the while
the sea breaks
and rolls, painlessly, under.
If we’re not copying it,
we’re lonely.
Is this the knowledge
that demands to be
passed down?
Time is made from swatches
of heaven and hell.
If we’re not killing it,
we’re hungry.
—from “Simple”
