This carefully curated selection from an entire body of work brings an undiscovered master to light. Invisible Histories navigates the totality and the niches of life in late 20th, early 21st century global and American life: relationships, growing up, sexuality, media, the powers-that-be, magic and the occult, bodies and death, secrets and codes, and, otherwise, the spiritual and the corporeal. Armstrong's "brief histories" begin one place and before one knows it, go some place completely different, unexpected, and unknown: "...my hands betrayed my learning, so clumsy and thick they rained buffalo nickels and consistently gave up the rabbit's position in the top hat's fifth dimension." Classic, inspiring, and charged with smoldering, ecstatic energy, Invisible Histories is a first sample in a new poetic scripture. Perhaps not since Ashbery's (and Whitman s before him), have readers been so taken in by language as they are by Armstrong s.
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