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Brent Armendinger

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Brent Armendinger is the author of Street Gloss (The Operating System, 2019) and The Ghost in Us Was Multiplying (Noemi Press, 2015), both of which were finalists for the California Book Award in Poetry. Brent is also the author of two chapbooks, Undetectable (New Michigan Press, 2009) and Archipelago (Noemi Press, 2009). His poems and translations have appeared in many journals, including Anomaly, Asymptote, Aufgabe, Bloom, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Ghost Proposal, Hayden’s Ferry Review, LIT, Puerto del Sol, Volt, and Web Conjunctions. He has been awarded residencies and fellowships at Blue Mountain Center, the Community of Writers, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Mineral School. Brent teaches creative writing at Pitzer ...more

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Average rating: 4.74 · 31 ratings · 3 reviews · 4 distinct works
The Ghost in Us Was Multipl...

4.80 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions
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Archipelago

4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2009
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Undetectable

4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2009
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Street Gloss

4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions
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From my introduction to Isabel Neal's reading at Pitzer College on March 12, 2026:

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Simone Weil
“All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.”
Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

Frank O'Hara
“I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.”
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Michel Foucault
“A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not resembling those that are institutionalized. It seems to me that a way of life can yield a culture and an ethics. To be "gay," I think, is not to identify with the psychological traits and the visible masks of the homosexual but to try and define and develop a way of life.”
Michel Foucault, Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth

Michel Foucault
“I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.”
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George Oppen
“I think there is no light in the world
but the world

and I think there is light”
George Oppen

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