Making Certain It Goes On: The Collected Poems of Richard Hugo
The definitive collection of a major American poet’s work.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...
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The definitive collection of a major American poet’s work.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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393307849 (0393307840)
ASIN: 393307840
Publish date: July 17th 1991
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 496
Edition language: English
I think of this collection as an unintentional autobiography. If you read the poems from start to finish in the order presented, you follow Richard Hugo's progression from loneliness to love and friendship, addiction through recovery, and depression to hope. Most appealing of all are his poems rev...
I wrote a review that covered this book as well as four others. You can find it here:http://hubpages.com/hub/FiveBestNewBooksForChristmasPresents2010
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