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| | Review: Musca Domestica, Assembling the Shepherd |
 | | Hume quotes Marinetti, impresario of Futurism, in the epigraph of "Interview" ("This is a beautiful world, it means what I say"), and Rumsey paraphrases him at length in "Man-Torpedo-Boat." They both compare technology to poetics, and both use analogy to dislocate objects and alter their traditional function. |
 | | Hume and Rumsey are philosophical poets who are also very much writers of this place and time: like many other well published and educated young poets now, they have found it necessary to reach philosophical decisions regarding narrative and narrator, voice and text. |
 | | In the center of Musca Domestica, in homage to Emily Dickinson, is a variorum: six poems in triplets with variants printed at the foot of the page. |
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