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by: Richard Hugo
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780393307849
ISBN: 0393307840
Label: W. W. Norton
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: August 01, 1991
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Sales Rank: 257600
Studio: W. W. Norton
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The definitive collection of a major American poet's work, with a new introduction by William Kittredge.
Richard Hugo was, in James Wright's words, 'a great poet, true to our difficult life.' Making Certain It Goes On brings together, as Hugo wished, the poems published in book form during his lifetime, together with the new poems he wrote in his last years.
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Rating: - Great Resonance on Life's Strange Rhythms
Richard Hugo is one of the masters of the meter in American poetry, and no work better displays this than his collected poems. It is truly a life's work, as some poems seem also repetitive, but you can tell from the repetition that the source is something very dear to the poet. Perfect nature reading!
Rating: - great poetry
In the last years of Hugo's life he taught writting at the University of Montana. His classes were popular, but not crowded. He loved sharing stories with his students, and he listened at least as well as he spoke. Richard's poetry is like this too: sounds come from reading these words of a lifetime, sounds that are passed to you by the gift of a great writer and great listener. These are poems about the fringes of boom-towns, failed mining hopes, loneliness, seattle, Missoula, drinking, lost love, ... Read More
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