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Available Surfaces: Essays on Poesis
T. R. HummerIn Available Surfaces, T. R. Hummer explores the art of making both poetry and music, and of the concept of "making" itself. He 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."
Hummer grew up in the deep South, and spent many of his high school years playing saxophone in various rock and roll bands before he met poetry. This musical influence is visible in his work: he often discusses poetry together with music, or music with poetry, and his career has included both writing and performance.
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Cover
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Title
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Copyright
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Dedication
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Acknowledgments
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Contents
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Introduction and Apologia
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A Length of Hemp Rope
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Lost Worlds, New Deals
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The Hive
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Sprung Vision; Or, Who Is Duane, and Why Do I Have His Syndrome?
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Brain Wave and the End of Science Fiction
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Impermanent Earth
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Available Surfaces
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I. Uncle Ernest's Tattoos
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II. The Gravitas of Paper
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III. Mrs. Quack and Miss Cuckoo
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IV. Earth Angel
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V. Can Teaching Be Written?
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VI. Writ in Water
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VII. In the Palm of the Poet's Hand
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Dead Writer, “Extinct” Form, The Power of the Small
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The Genographica
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I. Eleven Critical Aphorisms
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II. Eight Entanglement Assays / Spooky Action at a Distance
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III. Pharmapoesis: Fifteen Chemical Assays
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IV. Nine Compositions for Saxophone and Electron Microscope
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V. Eight Extremophiles
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Hotel California
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Going Gentle
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Applied Platonism; Or, What Work Isn't
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Hard Freight, “The New Poem,” and My Ignorance
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Emissary: Five Eternities in September
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