Muse in the Machine: Essays on Poetry and the Anatomy of the Body Politic

by T.R. Hummer

Book Overview

Music, race, politics, and conscience. In these eight essays written over the span of a decade and a half, T. R. Hummer explains how, for him, such abiding concerns revolve around the practice of poetry and the evolution of a culturally responsible personal poetics. Hummer writes about the suicide of poet Vachel Lindsay, the culture wars at the National Endowment for the Arts, the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the divided soul of his native American South,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820327972
• ISBN13: 9780820327976
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"