| The Father of the Predicaments Contributor(s): McHugh, Heather (Author) |
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ISBN: 0819565067 ISBN-13: 9780819565068 Publisher: Wesleyan University Press OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2001 Annotation: 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 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811 |
| LCCN: 9914234 |
| Series: Wesleyan Poetry |
| Physical Information: 0.31" H x 6.02" W x 9" (0.34 lbs) 86 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Whether sorrowful or sassy, the poems in this new collection bear McHugh's signature: a lively love for the very language she bewares. 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 |