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Pulitzer Prize�winning poet Rae Armantrout is at once a most intimate and coolly calculating poet. If anyone could produce a hybrid of Charlie Chaplin�s playful �Little Tramp� and Charlize Theron�s fierce �Imperator Furiosa,� it would be Armantrout. Her language is unexpected yet exact, playing off the collective sense that the shifting ground of daily reality may be a warning of imminent systemic collapse. While there are glimmers here of what remains of �the natural world,� the poet confesses the human failings, personal and societal, that have led to its devastation. No one�s senses are more acutely attuned than Armantrout�s, which makes her an exceptional observer and reporter of our faults. She leaves us wondering if the American Dream may be a nightmare from which we can�t awaken. Sometimes funny, sometimes alarming, the poems in Wobble play peek-a-boo with doom.