“Examine Every Atom”: The Capacious Career of Poet, Editor, and Critic T. R. Hummer, by Chard deNiord

“Examine Every Atom”: The Capacious Career of Poet, Editor, and Critic T. R. Hummer, by Chard deNiord Interviews [email protected] Wed, 07/31/2024 - 08:31   Right photo by formulanone / FlickrT. R. Hummer, as he is known professionally but Terry to his wide group of friends, has enjoyed a remarkably multifaceted literary career over the course of the past fifty years as an editor of five eminent literary journals: Quarterly West, Cimarron Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, and Georgia Review. Hummer has written as ambitiously as he has edited, authoring eleven books of well-received poetry in which he has found increasingly adept ways of distilling mystical and mythological themes into lyrical poetry. He has also written a book of incisive literary criticism titled The Muse in the Machine: Essays on Poetry and the Anatomy of the Body Politic. As both a friend and admirer of his poetry, essays, and music, I had entertained the idea of interviewing Hummer for years, and then finally did at his home in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, where he and his wife, the author Beth Cody, welcomed me with warm hospitality. We talked for almost two days straight. Our distilled “talk” that appears here consumed as many hours of editing as our prolonged conversation, yet seemed must shorter. Chard deNiord: As a child of the Deep South, where you were born in Macon, Mississippi, you spent hours harvesting winter peas on a Massey-Harris... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'

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