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by: Richard Hugo
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780393308600
ISBN: 039330860X
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 261
Publication Date: 1992-05
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Sales Rank: 967725
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company
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Rating: - His Star Gets Brighter With Time
Whether a long-time admirer, or new to Richard Hugo's poetry, this autobiography will give you a much broader context in which to read or re-read Hugo's significant body of work.
It contains a non-chronological series of biographical stories about his background. The stories are interspersed with selected poems that are grounded in, or spring from, the gist of the stories. This strikes me as the most complete and intellectually honest way in which to present poetry.
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Rating: - An intense poet looks into the mirror and doesn't flinch
Cliched reviewers say, "you can't put this book down." In the case of poet Richard Hugo's autobiography, I found I needed to put it down occasionally. The book is so intense, so brutally truthful, that the reader has to take a break and walk away from it periodically, just a prize-fighter needs that break between rounds. Growing up on West Marginal Way with his grandparents in Seattle, going through his tour as a bombardier, his early life and eventual emergence as one of the top nation's ... Read More
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