Available Surfaces: Essays on Poesis

by T.R. Hummer

Book Overview

In Available Surfaces, T. R. Hummer explores the art of making both poetry and music, and of the concept of "making" itself. He draws on childhood experiences and experiences as an adult, as a poet, and as an explorer of unworldly spaces to examine that "something ineffable about the process of making of which the poem is the exemplary artifact."

Hummer grew up in the deep South, and spent many of his high school years playing saxophone...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472051857
• ISBN13: 9780472051854
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.0"