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Rae Armantrout was
born in Vallejo, California on 13 April 1947 and grew up in San
Diego. Graduating from the University of California, Berkeley
in 1970, she later recieved a master's degree in creative writing
at San Francisco State University in 1975. Armantrout is the author
of seven books: Extremities (1978), The Invention of Hunger (1979),
Precedence (1985) Necroromance (1991), Made to Seem (1995), Writing
the Plot about Sets (1998), True (a memoir, 1998), and two forthcoming
works: The Pretext and Veil: New and Selected Poems. A founding
member of the West Coast "Language Poetry" movement,
Armantrout worked closely with a dynamic group of writers including
Ron Silliman, Lyn Hejinian, Bob Perelman, Steve Benson, Barret
Watten, Tom Mandel, and Carla Harryman. Although Language poetry
can be seen as advocating a poetics of nonreferentiality, Armantrout's
work, focusing as it often does on the local and the domestic,
resists such definitions. Internationally known, Armantrout's
work has been the subject of numerous essays (some of which are
gathered in A Wild Salience: The Writings of Rae Armantrout, a
collection dedicated to her work), and an entry in the Dictionary
of Literary Biography (vol. 193). Currently, she teaches at the
University of California, San Diego.
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