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Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
25 September 2012

Poetry by individual poets

""If McHugh is serious, she's anything but grim; with all her punning, bantering, and mock scolding of herself . . . she brightens the shadowy corners of her world with verbal pyrotechnics.""-The New York Times Book Review

""Her poems are open, resilient, invisibly twisted:

part safety net, part trampoline.""-Village Voice Literary Supplement

This fast-paced, verbally dexterous book-honored as a ""Book of the Year"" by Publishers Weekly-""boils up and boils over"" as it utilizes medical terminology and iconography to work through loss and detachment. Heather McHugh's startling rhymes and rhythms, coupled with her sarcastic self-reflection and infectious laughter, serve as both palliative and prophylactic in the face of human sufferings and ignorance. Being ""upgraded to serious"" from critical condition is a nod to the healing powers of poetry.

""Not to Be Dwelled On""

Self-interest cropped up even there, the day I hoisted three instead of the ceremonially called-for two spadefuls of loam onto the coffin of my friend.

Why shovel more than anybody else? What did I think I'd prove? More love (mud in her eye)? More will to work? (her father what, a shirker?) Christ, what wouldn't anybody give to get that gesture back?

She cannot die again; and I do nothing but re-live.

Heather McHugh is the author of a dozen books of poetry and translation. She teaches at the University of Washington and Warren Wilson College and lives in Seattle, Washington.

By: Heather McHugh
Imprint: Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 170g
ISBN: 9781556593956
ISBN 10: 1556593953
Pages: 104
Publication Date: 25 September 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Heather McHugh: Heather McHugh, recipient of a 2009 MacArthur Fellowship, is the author of thirteen books of poetry, translation, and literary essays. Her prize-winning translations include a Griffin International Poetry Prize and her volumes have been finalists for both the Pulitzer and the National Book Award. McHugh has taught literature and writing for over three decades, most regularly at the University of Washington in Seattle and in the low residency MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. From 1999 to 2005 she served as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and in 2000 she was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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