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Feeler (Paperback)
Heather McHugh
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Since Heather McHugh first began publishing her poems in 1968,
poetry readers have marveled at the immensity and range of her
gift. There seems to be nothing that McHugh can't do with words and
do with high wit and sonic brilliance. In her chapbook Feeler,
McHugh takes on the fraught subject of empathy-how much we feel,
and do, for the afflicted. It also addresses the relation between
thought and feeling: "Nowadays I cannot tell/ the two apart: can't
feel things thoughtlessly/or think things up without emotion." As
with only the very best poets, McHugh seamlessly combines thought
and feeling, in poems that are entertaining and profound.
Available now in paperback, The Father of the Predicaments is
Heather McHugh's first book since Hinge & Sign was selected as
a National Book Award finalist and chosen a Best Book of the Year
by the New York Times and Publishers Weekly. In this witty and
deeply felt collection, McHugh takes her cue from Aristotle, who
wrote that "the father of the predicaments is being." For McHugh,
being is intimately, though perhaps not ultimately, bound to
language, and these poems cut to the quick, delivering their
revelations with awesome precision
Paul Celan s widely recognized as the greatest and most studied
post-war European poet. At once demanding and highly rewarding, his
poetry dominates the field in the aftermath of the Holocaust. This
selection of poems, now available in paper for the first time, is
comprised of previously untranslated work, opening facets of
Celan's oeuvre never before available to readers of English. These
translations, called "perfect in language, music, and spirit" by
Yehuda Amichai, work from the implied premise of what has been
called Intention auf die Sprache, delivering the spirit of Celan's
work--his dense multilingual resonances, his brutal broken music,
syntactic ruptures and dizzying wordplay.
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Shades (Paperback)
Heather McHugh
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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.
Heather McHugh's new book, Eyeshot, is a brooding, visionary work
that takes aim at the big questions--those of love and death. The
poems suggest that such immensities balance on the smallest
details, and that a range of human blindness is inescapable.
The power of this new work comes from its delicate yet tenacious
fidelity to the ever-unfolding senses of sense. The poems invite
the reader to follow careening words and insights through passages
both playful and profound. Her "Fido, Jolted by Jove" reveals the
tension endemic to both language and living: "the world itself is
worried." Yet the same poem remarks the high price of any reductive
fix: "a brain this insecure may need another bolt be driven in it."
This movement between anxiety and the human compulsion for order
informs Eyeshot's darkly comic, 20/20 acuity.
"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 poetry of Valery and Rilke to ancient Greek
drama and Yoruba folk songs, offering intense, passionate, highly
personal readings that are informed and unified by her concern for
the relationships among language, culture, and poetry.
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