The Believer

July/August 2011

Meant

A new poem

by Rae Armantrout

When the rat rests,
its brain

runs the maze again,
then runs it backwards,

and repeats.

This is early
music.

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Rae Armantrout’s book Versed won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. A new book, Money Shot, was published by Wesleyan University Press this year. Armantrout teaches writing at U.C. San Diego.

July/August 2011

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