Hum

In her seventh collection of poetry, Ann Lauterbach configures her acclaimed lyricism against calamity, ideas of order against chance dispersal, retrieval against loss. In these new poems, images of place, of paintings and objects, are transformed, as the materials of the world give way to evocations of the haunting vicissitude of music. By turns urgent and consoling, the poems in Hum bring the reader to the crux where public events impinge on personal reception, and the act of listening is understood as our hope for engagement and response.