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Article: Hum.(Book Review)
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- Harvard Review
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- December 1, 2005
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Hum by Ann Lauterbach, Penguin Books, 2005, $18.00 paper, ISBN 0143034960. Reliquaries by Eric Pankey, Ausable Press, 2005, $14.00 paper, ISBN 1931337128.
In his essay "Poetry and Happiness," Richard Wilbur writes of the poet's "primitive desire ... to lay claim to as much of the world as possible," a desire which manifests itself in what he calls "cataloguing": a poetic mode that allows the poet to both "name the world ... and embody the self." Eric Pankey, in his six previous books, has specialized in a particular blend of cataloguing which one might characterize as "psychological pastoral," wherein the aim is to take stock of the outer world (nature, in ...