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Andrew Hudgins examines poetry as part of modern life
New book of essays relates poetry to gardening, unread books, his intestines and rock ’n’ roll
Diary of a Poem
By Andrew Hudgins
Cloth 978-0-472-07154-8 / $65.00
Paper 978-0-472-05154-0 / $26.95
Publication Date: May 2011
Andrew Hudgins’s Diary of a Poem is an engaging collection of essays that offers pleasure and
profit to its readers. The title essay discusses the author’s amusing travails as he attempts to write
an ode about intestines, while other pieces explore the poetry of James Agee, Donald Justice,
Allen Tate, and other poets, as well as the musician Johnny Winter, who is the subject of a
rollicking segment about rock ’n’ roll. More seriously, Hudgins writes with lively good humor
about his tomato garden, the unread books piled up precipitously around his bed, and the
emotional problems that led to an embarrassingly intimate, yet funny encounter with his fatherin-law.
Diary of a Poem is lively, charming, often humorous, and a pleasurable read for the general
reader and the poetry specialist alike.
Andrew Hudgins is Humanities Distinguished Professor in English at The Ohio State University
and author of several books of poetry, including American Rendering: New and Selected Poems,
Ecstatic in the Poison, and After the Lost War: A Narrative.
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