Hum by Ann Lauterbach | Resources

Hum For Further Reading

Altieri, Charles, The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry: Modernism and After, Blackwell, 2006.

Altieri, a leading poetry critic, offers a comprehensive overview of modernism in poetry, with emphases on Wallace Stevens and W. H. Auden, both of whom have influenced Lauterbach. Altieri concentrates on explaining how modernism arose and how poetry has been influenced by the other arts.

Lauterbach, Ann, “Links without Links: The Voice of the Turtle,” in American Poetry Review, Vol. 21, No. 1, January-February 1992, p. 37.

Lauterbach discusses contemporary poetry, touching on the subject of the Persian Gulf War. She believes that poetry represents a distaste for power and states that poets need to reject literalism in their work in order to convey truth and create a new perception of the world.

———, “2001 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize,” in Nation, February 4, 2002, pp. 33-34.

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