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Rae Armantrout's "Soft Money," from Money Shot, transplants the language of sexual desire into the context of the current economic meltdown. The poem reads as a glibly sexualized description of an unnamed "they," and opens with the following lines:
They're sexy
because they're needy,
which degrades them.What this poem highlights, for me, is the way narcissistic consumerism... more
—Tracy K. Smith
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