The muse in the machine
Subtitle: essays on poetry and the anatomy of the body politic
By: by T.R. Hummer.
Series: Life of poetry
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780820328034; 9780820327976
Subjects: American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Poetry -- Authorship.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: An audience; title: Laughed off : canon, kharakter, and the dismissal of Vachel Lindsay; title: "Sen-sen," censorship, obscenity, secrecy : slapping the face of the body politic; title: Inside the avalanche; title: Ex machina : reading the mind of the South; title: Revenge of the American leviathan; title: "Christ, start again" : Robert Penn Warren, a poet of the South?; title: The mechanical muse.