T. R. Hummer's new and characteristically pyrotechnic collection takes its title from the rare (in English) singular form of the common word ''ephemera.'' In a work of startling originality, the poet presents a meditation on ephemerality from the point of view of the ephemeron itself as it passes, b
Messenger poems
- Publisher
- Clay Sanskrit; JJC Foundation, New York University Press
- Year
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Category
- Fiction
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