Heather McHugh (1948 - present)

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Heather McHugh was born in California in 1948 and raised in rural Virginia. She entered Harvard University at the age of 16, where she took a seminar with Robert Lowell and had her first poem published in The New Yorker. “My whole work is to catch the word by surprise, sneaking up on language, sneaking up on the world as it lurks in words,” McHugh said. “I love the recesses of reason. That’s a great place to set my mind at rest.” Exuding a love of language, wit, and observation, McHugh create.. Continue..

Some of Heather McHugh Poems

Ghoti

With Due Respect To Thor

What He Thought

Stroke

Etymological Dirge

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