Feeler
Published on 2. January 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
40 pages
978-1-946448-42-2 (ISBN)
Description
Since Heather McHugh first began publishing her poems in 1968, poetry readers have marveled at the immensity and range of her gift. There seems to be nothing that McHugh can't do with words and do with high wit and sonic brilliance. In her chapbook Feeler, McHugh takes on the fraught subject of empathy-how much we feel, and do, for the afflicted. It also addresses the relation between thought and feeling: "Nowadays I cannot tell/ the two apart: can't feel things thoughtlessly/or think things up without emotion." As with only the very best poets, McHugh seamlessly combines thought and feeling, in poems that are entertaining and profound.
Reviews / Votes
"All of her lines are demanding, especially her last lines-puzzling yet provocative, they're like little switches that flip at the end, sending the reader back into the poet's maze of words."-The New York Times Book Review
"In poems that are rich with wordplay-puns, rhymes, syntactical twists-Heather McHugh reveals the complex layers of meaning that individual words or phrases contain. The result is intellectually challenging, yet emotionally engaging verse that balances gravity with humor."
-The MacArthur Foundation
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Louisville
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
68 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-946448-42-2 (9781946448422)
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Person
Heather McHugh frequents the Salish Sea areas of western Washington State and southern British Columbia. ln addition to her 2009 MacArthur Fellowship, she has won many distinguished awards for writing and for teaching, having taught for decades at the University of Washington in Seattle, as well as at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College (and elsewhere). Between 1979 and 2009, collections of her essays, translations, and original poetry regularly appeared in print, but FEELER will be her first new volume since 2009.