Michael Hugh Lythgoe grew up in Evansville, Indiana. A retired Air
Force officer, he holds an MFA from Bennington College. He worked
for the Smithsonian Institution, and directed an educational
foundation. He lives in Aiken, SC. His collection, BRASS, won the
Kinloch Rivers chapbook contest in 2006. His poems, reviews and
interviews appear in Windhover, The Writer's Chronicle,
Christianity & Literature, The Caribbean Writer.
Praise for BRASS: "In the riveting, precise language of an
experienced poet, Lythgoe not only probes the horror of war with
uncanny clarity and insight but leavens it with exquisite poems
about art and color" (Larry Thomas, author of Where Skulls Speak
Wind). Lythgoe's poems are frequently in tense settings facing
potential destruction, yet they "seem to morph into the natural or
the homespun without any sense of irony.almost hypnotic sonority.."
(John Harris, editor of Praesidium)
Prasise for Holy Week: "Shifting in remarkably spry fashion from
gargoyles to bear-men to Degas to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to
knee surgery to Ash Wednesday, Lythgoe's poems read like a
travelogue through .one man's diversely lived and deeply considered
life. His poems are at once serious, surreal, and sacrosanct. In
his work, tragedy and triumph are inevitable bedfellows (case in
point, the poignant and mournful "Easter Sonnet"). Returning is all
about the leaving, he writes. At their most profound, these poems
are poems of loss. At 'his' most profound, he is a poet of
redemption (Jill Alexander Essbaum, author of Harlot).
From the Foreward by Audell Shelburne: "There is a Renaissance
concept.known as copiousness, a fullness and richness that comes
when a poem is complete, expansive, whole. It gains in richness
from the texture of the details. It adds depth through the insight
and thought of a considerate, kind and intelligent poet. Lythgoe's
work is copious."
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