Hinge & Sign
Poems, 1968-1993
Published on 13. December 2022
237 pages
978-0-8195-7212-7 (ISBN)
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A renowned poet's artful collection is a striking body of work.
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HEATHER MCHUGH is Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence and Professor of English at the University of Washington in Seattle. She regularly teaches at the low residency MFA Program at Warren Wilson College. She is the author of six books of poetry, including, most recently, The Father of the Predicaments (Wesleyan 1999). In 1993, Wesleyan published her literary essays, Broken English: Poetry and Partiality. She has translated the work of Jean Follain, and with her husband Nikolai Popov, the work of Blaga Dimitrova and Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan (Wesleyan 2000). In 1999, she was elected a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- after Rilke
- New Poems (1987-1993)
- What He Thought
- Acts of God
- I. Tornado
- II. Lightning
- Window: Thing as Participle
- Curve
- Dry Time
- Seal
- Two-Legged
- Fast
- Coming
- Glimpse of Main Event
- My Shepherd
- Untitled
- The Woman Who Laughed on Calvary
- Eastport
- Well
- Unguent
- Some Kind of Pine
- Numberless
- To Go
- Connubial
- Prothalamion
- The Size of Spokane
- Auto
- Better or Worse
- Two St. Petersburgs
- White Mind and Roses
- Scenes from a Death
- 32 Adults (1990)
- Uncollected Poems (1975-1986)
- Postcard from Provincetown
- Circus
- Sebastian's Mirror
- A
- Just Man
- Live
- Five Threes (Fast Bike)
- Two Holidays
- A Night in a World
- For a Sad God
- The Song Calls the Star Little
- Faith
- Kind of Poor
- For a Good Man
- Lifelike
- Disappearee's Song
- The Act
- Where
- Household
- To a Christian
- A Hurricane Can Cast
- Denomination
- Literal
- Poems from Dangers (1968-1977)
- Spectacles
- Orbit
- Pupil
- Preferences
- In Praise of Pain
- The Score
- Ozone
- To See the Light
- A Few Licks
- Tendencies
- Gig at Big Al's
- The Most
- Outcry
- Fable
- Patronage
- Double Agent
- Politics
- Fix
- Excerpt from an Argument with Enthusiasts, Concerning Inspiration
- Reservation
- Against a Dark Field
- Debtors' Prison Road
- It is 70 degrees in late November. Opening a window, you nearly know
- Stroke
- Solitary's Solace in the Natural Sciences
- Poems from A World of Difference (1977-1981)
- The Field
- The House
- Like
- The Fall
- At a Loss
- Mind
- Meantime
- Blue Streak
- Meaning Business
- Confessionist
- Impressionist
- Whoosh
- Stall
- Hag
- High Jinx
- North Island Songs
- Language Lesson 1976
- Toward an Understanding
- Inside
- Form
- Syllables
- The Nymph to Narcissus
- When the Future is Black
- Message at Sunset for Bishop Berkeley
- Breath
- Poems from To the Quick (1981-1987)
- Four Poems after Rilke
- The Amenities
- In a World of Taking, the Mistake
- Two Loves
- The Trouble with "In
- Spot in Space and Time
- I Knew I'd Sing
- Constructive
- To God or Man
- Bear in English
- Animal Song
- Take Care
- What Could Hold Us
- Point of Origin
- To the Quick
- Bar and Grill
- A Physics
- Big Ideas Among Earthlings
- Or Else
- The Ghost
- What Poems Are For
- The Matter Over
- Poems from Shades (1981-1988)
- Mox Nox
- 20-200 on 747
- What Hell Is
- Unspeakable
- Inflation
- The Lyricist's Lament
- The Oven Loves the TV Set
- Who Made Her
- Earthmoving Malediction
- Hole Filler
- ID
- To Have To
- Not a Sin
- Spilled
- Hard
- Melted Money
- Stairwell
- Labor
- The Typewriter's the Kind
- Place Where Things Got
- Round Time
- Shades
- Thought of Night
- From 20,000 Feet
- Acknowledgments
