68 pages / 6.00 x 9.00 inches / None
In a work of startling originality, the T.R. Hummer's Ephemeron presents a meditation on ephemerality from the point of view of the ephemeron itself as it passes, be it the individual, the atom, the particle. Relentless in its stalking of the boundary between being and nonbeing, Hummer's work becomes a tour-de-force that shines a spotlight into dark corners of Being, revealing yet more darkness.
Born on a farm in rural Mississippi, T. R. Hummer is the author of fourteen books of poetry and essays. Former editor of the Georgia Review and the Kenyon Review, he is a Guggenheim fellow in poetry and has won numerous awards for his work.
"Reading this book is like following a camera through a city like no other on this earth. Here is the wreck of an airplane, there an old woman sitting naked in a wicker chair. Slaves do the work of unseen masters; the shadow of a hawk drifts lazily over a battlefield strewn with shrapneled bodies. Hummer’s world is bright with the beauty of decay, charged with the force of his unrelenting intellect."—David Kirby
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