Useless Virtues : Poems
by
T. R. Hummer
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Southern Messenger Poets
ISBN-10
0807126691
ISBN-13
9780807126691
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Imprint
Louisiana State University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 1st, 2001
Print length
80 Pages
Weight
333 grams
Dimensions
22.70 x 14.10 x 0.70 cms
Product Classification:
Poetry / poems by individual poetsPoetry by individual poets
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A wide-ranging series of forays into metaphysical territory. The book’s presiding inquiry concerns the dependency of our consciousness and our spirit on the untrustworthy powers of language. How often and how deeply is our faith - in words, if not in gods - misplaced, destructive, glorious, redemptive? How can we know?
Useless Virtues, T. R. Hummer's seventh book of poetry, is a wide-ranging series of forays into metaphysical territory. Its presiding inquiry concerns the dependency of our consciousness and our spirit on the untrustworthy powers of language. How often and how deeply is our faith - in words, if not in gods - misplaced, destructive, glorious, redemptive? How can we know? This powerful collection is fueled by the desire to answer these impossible, indispensable questions.
The centerpiece of the book, Axis, takes as its terrain the thought of Martin Heidegger, and through this brilliant and controversial figure the nature of identity, of humanity, is contemplated. The poem is, finally, a lyrical farewell to the poet's father and to his generation - the generation for which World War II was the great defining destiny - and hence to that century we called 19.
In these poems we find the almost sensual allure of direst possibility. From a woman who, during lovemaking, envisions strangling her lover, to a Pernod drinker whose dark imaginings recall the absinthe addicts of an earlier era - mortality and loss, as well as human failing, are hovering presences.
Philosophic and searching, traditional yet bold, Useless Virtues is the work of a master poet at his best.
The centerpiece of the book, Axis, takes as its terrain the thought of Martin Heidegger, and through this brilliant and controversial figure the nature of identity, of humanity, is contemplated. The poem is, finally, a lyrical farewell to the poet's father and to his generation - the generation for which World War II was the great defining destiny - and hence to that century we called 19.
In these poems we find the almost sensual allure of direst possibility. From a woman who, during lovemaking, envisions strangling her lover, to a Pernod drinker whose dark imaginings recall the absinthe addicts of an earlier era - mortality and loss, as well as human failing, are hovering presences.
Philosophic and searching, traditional yet bold, Useless Virtues is the work of a master poet at his best.
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