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Source: Poetry (March 2008).
Biography
Poet Heather McHugh’s work is noted for its rhetorical gestures, sharp puns and interest in the materials of language itself—her self-described determination is “to follow every surge of language, every scrap and flotsam.” Describing her work in the Boston Review, poet and critic Richard Howard alleged that “most of McHugh’s poems end in a spurt, as they proceed in a slather, of just such astonishment as is bestowed—afforded—by . . .
Poems by Heather McHugh
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Activities, Social Commentaries, Popular Culture
POET’S REGION U.S., Northwestern
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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