Shades is a book of shadow and light cast between trees and sun,
between day and room, between life and death. It acknowledges
endings as beginnings; it offers compassion and tenderness,
searching for hope in the richness of nature; it seeks the same
resources within the human being.
Heather McHugh's companion volume to To the Quick (Wesleyan 1987)
continues the music and brilliance characteristic of her work but
moves more deeply into the metaphysical. She writes in paradox,
with serious wit and intensity, the crafted language of "stitches
in hand and birds in time"; "We part/ before we part; indeed, / we
part before we meet..." She studies "going matched with coming."
She begins with a series of elegies that bring sexuality and death
into brutal juxtaposition. Living and dying are the occasions of
these poems, the soul the ultimate concern. This poetry takes to
heart the fundamental strangeness of being.
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