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Hum

Penguin Poets

Ann Lauterbach - Author

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ISBN 9780143034964 | 128 pages | 05 Apr 2005 | Penguin | 5.94 x 8.81in | 18 - AND UP
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An urgent new collection from one of America's most inventive and admired poets

From Hum:

Things are incidental
Someone is weeping

I weep for the incidental
The days are beautiful

Tomorrow was yesterday
The days are beautiful

Since the mid-1970s, Ann Lauterbach has explored the ways in which language simultaneously captures and forfeits our experience. In Hum, her seventh collection of poetry, loss and the unexpected (the title poem was written directly in response to witnessing the events of 9/11) play against the reassurances of repetition and narrative story. By turns elegant, fierce, and sensuous, her musically charged poems move from the pictorial or imagistic to a heightened sense of the aural or musical in order to depict the world humming with vibrations of every kind from every source—the world as a form of life.


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