Overview :Richard Hugo was, in James Wright's words, "a great poet, true to our difficult life." Making Certain It Goes On brings together, as Hugo wi... Read More
Overview :This book presents in comprehensive fashion the extraordinary development of Ariadne auf Naxos from its conception to the final operatic ver... Read More
Overview :In 1919 the last Habsburg rulers, Emperor Karl and Empress Zita, left Austria and went into exile. That same year, the fairy tale opera Die ... Read More
Overview :Hugo was also an editor of the Yale Younger Poets series and a distinguished teacher and master of the personal essay. Now many of his essay... Read More
Overview :The result easily demonstrated, then as now, the massive achievement of the writer whom Carolyn Kizer called "one of the most passionate, en... Read More
Overview :In an essay on Richard Hugo, the poet James Wright called him "one of the precious few poets of our age . . . who has, and sustains, an abid... Read More
Overview :Richard Hugo, whom Carolyn Kizer has called" one of the most passionate, energetic, and honest poets living," here offers an extraordinary c... Read More
Overview :Hugo's most important subject is the American West. In the present volume, people, places, dreams, and memories are explored again--always i... Read More
Overview :"That Richard Hugo's poetry creates in his readers an almost indistinguishable desire for more," writes the critic and poet Dave Smith, "is ... Read More