The muse in the machine; essays on poetry and the anatomy of the body politic. (Life of poetry)

by Hummer, T. R

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Book Description

U. of Georgia Press, 2006. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Hummer observes the workings of music, art, race, politics on the poetic conscience and the practice of poetry in this collection of eight essays. Focusing on the tensions between the body politic and the body poetic, Hummer describes the suicide and dismissal of Vachal Lindsay, the crush of societal censorship and the differences between obscenity and secrecy, the war and peace of craft and consciousness, his identity and his South, the smothering nature of America, the echoes of the wars of the Middle East in the American psyche, the complexities of Robert Penn Warren, and the saving grace of music. The result is personal as well as political, and strongly indicative of the ambiguities inherent in life as a poet on American soil. Hummer knows his Foucault and Nietzsche well, but his heart is his own. (©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR)

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