Books by T.R. Hummer

Explains how, for the author, such concerns as music, race, politics, and conscience revolve around the practice of poetry and the evolution of a culturally responsible personal poetics. The author writes about the suicide of poet Vachel Lindsay, the culture wars at the National Endowment for the Arts, and more.

Explores the art of making both poetry and music, and of the concept of ""making"" itself. T.R. Hummer draws on childhood experiences and experiences as an adult, as a poet, and as an explorer of unworldly spaces to examine that ""something ineffable about the process of making of which the poem is the exemplary artifact.""