
“I don’t know why we do it. We must be crazy./Welcome, fellow poet.”―Richard HugoRichard Hugo, whom Carolyn Kizer called “one of the most passionate, energetic and honest poets living,” was that rare phenomenon―a distinguished poet who was also an inspiring teacher. The Triggering Town is Hugo’s classic collection of lectures, essays, and reflections, all “directed toward helping with that silly, ...
Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Reissue edition (August 9, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 039333872X
ISBN-13: 978-0393338720
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.4 x 8.3 inches
Amazon Rank: 67006
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This is my new favorite guide to poetry.It makes a wonderful accompanyment to Ted Kooser's invaluable The Poetry Home Repair Manual.Richard Hugo offers one chapter on his "rules of writing poetry," yet you realize he gives these rules out with grains...
dening, futile, enormously rewarding activity: writing poems.” From pieces that include “Writing off the Subject” and “How Poets Make a Living,” anyone, from the beginning poet to the mature writer to the lover of literature, will benefit greatly from Hugo’s playful and profound insights into the mysteries of literary creation.