Heather McHugh is one of the country’s leading poets McHugh’s books earn national publicity, including New York Times “Notable Book of the Year” nods and reviews in major metro dailies, all the trade magazines, and academic journals previous titles have been National Book Award finalists and short-listed for the Pulitzer McHugh is very well connected within the poetry world, including eight years as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets very well connected in the academic world, teaching...
<P>"When I call poetry a form of partiality," writes Heather McHugh, «I mean its economies operate by powers of intimation: glimmering and glints, rather than exhaustible sums. It is a broken language from the beginning, brimming with non-words: all that white welled up to keep the line from surrendering to the margin; all that quiet, to keep the musics marked.» In Broken English, McHugh applies her poetic sensibility and formidable critical insight to topics ranging from the...
