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\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u0026#151;\u003cI\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Her poems are open, resilient, invisibly twisted: part safety net, part trampoline.\"\u0026#151;\u003cI\u003eVoice Literary Supplement\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis fast-paced, verbally dexterous book\u0026#151;honored as a \"Book of the Year\" by \u003cI\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c/I\u003e\u0026#151;\"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.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cB\u003e\"Not to Be Dwelled On\"\u003c/B\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cI\u003eSelf-interest cropped up even there,\u003cBR\u003ethe day I hoisted three instead\u003cBR\u003eof the ceremonially called-for two\u003cBR\u003espadefuls of loam\u003cBR\u003eonto the coffin of my friend.\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cI\u003eWhy shovel more than anybody else?\u003cBR\u003eWhat did I think I'd prove? More love\u003cBR\u003e(mud in her eye)? More will to work?\u003cBR\u003e(her father what, a shirker?) Christ,\u003cBR\u003ewhat wouldn't anybody give\u003cBR\u003eto get that gesture back?\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cI\u003eShe cannot die again; and I\u003cBR\u003edo nothing but re-live.\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cB\u003eHeather McHugh\u003c/B\u003e 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.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003c/div\u003e |
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