Hugo, Richard

New York. 1980. Norton. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0393013014. 70 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Poetry America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - ‘That Richard Hugo's poetry creates in his readers an almost indistinguishable desire for more,' writes the critic and poet Dave Smith, ‘is the mark of his ability to reach those deep pools in us where we wait for passionate engagement.' What Hugo gives us is the chance to begin again and a world where that beginning is ever possible. Here, for his ever-growing body of readers, are more of those opportunities. Richard Hugo was a poet of the Pacific Northwest, yet his renown attests to a stature greater than that of most regional poets. He is noted for the tight, rhythmic control of his language and lines and for the sharp sense of place evoked in his poems. Hugo's images are urgent and compelling; he imbues the many minute or seemingly irrelevant details found in his poems with a subtle significance, thereby creating a tension between the particular and the universal. Even though many of Hugo's poems address failed towns, isolated people and communities imprisoned in walls of boredom and rage, there is also a pervading sense of optimism, of an uplifting hope that humanity will always survive civilization. inventory #4796 ISBN: 0393013014.