num_pages: 128
description: From Hum : Things are incidentalSomeone is weeping I weep for the incidentalThe days are beautiful Tomorrow was yesterdayThe 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.
language: English
title: Hum
titlecomplete: Hum
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 56
publisher: Penguin Books