The Disappearing Poet Blues Hardback
by Marc Hudson
Part of the The Bucknell Series in Contemporary Poetry series
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The poems in Marc Hudson's The Disappearing Poet Blues are driven by a moral anguish: how do we live, they ask, in strict circumstances; what is the worth of a profoundly limited human life; how can one be both a good father and a good artist?
Emblematic of the poet's exile and endurance are the severe landscapes of the Okanogan in Washington State and the Colville Indian Reservation, where Hudsons brain-injured son, Ian, was born and lived his first year.
Later poems reflect the familys move to Indiana, where the less austere contours of the Midwest suggest a mellowing of grief.
The poems of the second section metaphorically wrestle with many of the same concerns: Caedmon, the first Anglo-Saxon Christian poet, tells of the burdens of song; an Irish monk on his volcanic outpost longs for his homecoming in Christ.
Hudson's The Disappearing Poet Blues has an ethical music and weight; but ragged and uncertain and human as it is, it also sings the blues.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:81 pages
- Publisher:Bucknell University Press
- Publication Date:01/02/2002
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- ISBN:9781611481563
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Unavailable
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:81 pages
- Publisher:Bucknell University Press
- Publication Date:01/02/2002
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- ISBN:9781611481563