Heather McHugh Links



Heather McHugh's poems often prompt insight into how our language works. The American Academy of Poets maintains a nice page for her, with links to a few poems and interviews.  Her home page links a few additional poems, and Ploushares published a profile in 2001. Below are some of the poems scattered on sites around the internet.

Gin Cove (from the Marlboro Review)

Ghoti (from Third Coast)

What He Thought

Voice

The Retort Room

Figurative Leaf -- You may wish to compare this to two Dickinson poems, I like to see it lap the miles and especially I like a look of agony. Also, Lyn Hejinian writes, in The Cell, that "myopia is psychosomatic."

Ghazal of the Better-Unbegun -- For better or worse, here is a page of information about the ghazal form

In a Bottle (from Drunken Boat)

With Due Respect to Thor and Pay Per View (from Agni)

Of the Woe that Swallows Hue and Arm and Pec (the 2 adillos) (from the Boston Review)

Just Some and One Red Lip (from the Chicago Review)

Significant Suspensions (from Heliotrope)

Iquity (from Electronic Poetry Review)


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