Available Surfaces

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-472-07185-2
Verlag: University of Michigan Press

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 137 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 272 g

T. R. Hummer grew up in the Deep South and planned to become a musician before he met poetry. This musical influence is visible in his work: he often discusses poetry together with music (and sometimes the other way around), and his career has included both writing and performance. <BR> <BR>The present volume, <I>Available Surfaces,</I> focuses on the art of making both poetry and music and on the concept of ""making"" as well. Hummer draws on childhood experiences (“A Length of Hemp Rope”), adult experiences (“Hotel California”), experiences as a poet (“Available Surfaces”), and experiences as an explorer of unworldly spaces (“The Hive,” “Brain Wave and the End of Science Fiction”). <BR> <BR>Hummer has published ten volumes of poetry with presses including Louisiana State University Press and the University of Illinois Press. His work has appeared in two anthology volumes published by Simon & Schuster and Cengage and in two Pushcart Prize anthologies. He has edited the<I> Kenyon Review,</I> the<I> Georgia Review,</I> and the<I> Cimarron Review,</I> among other journals. <div></DIV>

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hummer, T. R.

Über Autor(innen)

<B>T. R. Hummer</B> is Professor of English at Arizona State University and was previously Director of the Creative Writing Program and Director of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing. He previously directed the MFA Program in Creative Writing at University of Oregon and played tenor and baritone saxophone in a variety of rock ’n’ roll bands. He has won a Guggenheim Foundation grant, two Pushcart Prizes, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.