[bksvol-discuss] Submitted: The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir (poetry)
- From: "Rik James" <d28rik@xxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:55:35 -0700
TITLE: The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir
AUTHOR : Richard Hugo
YEAR OF COPYRIGHT: 1973
GENRE: poetry
How Many Pages: 79 pp.
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Nominated for a National Book Award, The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir
contains many of Hugo's most loved and anthologized poems.
ISBN #: 0-88748-308-9
LONGER DESCRIPTION:
The collection includes "Montgomery Hollow," the title poem, and the famous,
"Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg," in which he turns to the reader, midway
through his description of a dying town, and says, "Isn?t this your life?
That ancient kiss/ still burning out your eyes? Isn?t this defeat/ so
accurate, the church bell simply seems/ a pure announcement: ring and no one
comes?"His 1973 book, The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir, is both about
Montana and not about Montana. Of his method, Hugo once said: "Usually I
find a poem is triggered by something, a small town or abandoned house, that
I feel others would ignore." The poems in The Lady in Kicking House
Reservoir are tied to place and landscape, but Hugo?s real subject matter
remains elusive.
From the book jacket:
Richard Hugo (1923-1982) was born and raised in White Center, Washington.
He flew thirty-three missions in Europe as a bombardier in World War II,
receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross. He returned to Seattle to study
with Theodore Roethke at the Writing Program.
Nominated for the National Book Award. From 1977 to the end of his life,
Hugo served as the judge of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
Upon publication of The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir in 1973, Richard
Howard wrote, "Richard Hugo's concern is the unenviable, the unvisited, even
the uninviting, which he must invest with his own deprivation, his own
private war.... Each poem adds its incisive particulars to the general
stoic wreck; but what startles, then reassures in all this canon of the
inconsolable, the unsanctified, the dispossessed, is Hugo's poetics, the
analogy of language to experience. . . .
Richard Hugo is such an important poet because the difficulties inherent in
his art provide him a means of saying what he has to say. It is no accident
that he
must develop a negative in order to produce a true image."
VOLUNTEER COMMENTS:
This book of poetry was scanned using Kurzweil K-1000 ver. 10.05. Line
endings were respected in the General settings for poetry to be as printed.
Pages were normalized, headers removed, ranked spelling was run. Very few
errors. Submitted in RTF, KES copy still available if desired. Contact me if
needed at d28rik@xxxxxxxx
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