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[APPLAUSE]

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Hi, my name is Renee Angle.

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I work here at the
center, and I'll

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be introducing Christine Hume.

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Christine Hume is the
author of three books,

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most recently Shot, and
two chapbooks, Lullabies--

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Speculations on the First
Active Sense and Ventifacts.

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A bilingual selected
poems is coming out

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with Lux Books in
Berlin later in 2012.

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She directs the
interdisciplinary Creative

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Writing Program at Eastern
Michigan University.

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Hume's poetry is
relentless, traversing

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a complex range of forms and
styles on and off the page.

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Her current installation
here at the Poetry Center,

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titled Pillowtalk (Covers)--

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A Sonic Insomnia,
is a compilation

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of various artists covering
poems from her book, Shot.

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It is both a literal
and dreamlike invitation

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to lay down, lay
way, lay up, and lay

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a course for the unhearable--

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the sound within the
sound within the figure

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of the ear, disorder
in opposition.

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Hume's lush surrealism,
use of homophonics,

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and liturgical rhythms
are continually

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refigured through her
collaborator soundscapes.

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The only clothing
for the furniture

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she evokes in this
installation is the pillow.

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It is the membrane through
which we as listeners

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partake in intimate
conversation.

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But beware.

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It also muffles and suffocates.

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If each of these sound artists
create a bed for the voice,

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as Stephen Vitiello
describes of his own cover,

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they also throw back the covers
to a place where synesthesia

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and sleep lust abound.

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Eye is also ear.

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Ear is also a mouth, ringing,
fermenting the unabsorbed.

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Listener, get under, cover up.

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What Hume has created
is mirabile dictu.

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Please welcome Christine Hume.

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[APPLAUSE]

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