The Real West Marginal Way: A Poet's Autobiography
Language: English
Published by W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1986
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 261 pages. A post-humously released autobiography of sorts of this acclaimed poet who has never gotten a wide enough audience. Edited by Ripley S. Hugo, Lois Welch, and James Welch. Features an introduction by William Matthews. Includes several black and white images. A clean and tight very near fine copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine and in a very good plus dust jacket with a very small and faint stain to the base of the spine.
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- Title
- The Real West Marginal Way: A Poet's Autobiography
- Author
- HUGO, Richard
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton & Company, New York
- Publication year
- 1986
- Dust jacket
- dj
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0393023265
- ISBN 13
- 9780393023268
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Item weight
- 2.063 pounds
- Seller catalogs
- Memoirs & Autobiographies
Of Richard Hugo's Making Certain It Goes On, David Wagoner has written: "Richard Hugo spared himself (and us) no pains or joys in making the wonderful, vigorous original poems brought together in this single collection. His was and is a very important voice in modern American poetry."
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 essays have been assembled and arranged by Ripley Hugo, the poet's widow and a writer and teacher, and Lois and James Welch, writers and close friends of the poet. Together the essays constitute a compelling autobiographical narrative that takes Hugo from his lonely childhood through the war years and his working and creative life to an interview just before his death in 1982. William Matthews, also a friend of Hugo's, has written an introduction."Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Reviews
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
A distinguished poet and teacher, and editor of the Yale Younger Poets Series, Hugo died of leukemia in 1982. As was Making Certain It Goes On: the collected poems of Richard Hugo (Norton, 1984), the present volume is being issued posthumously. Not a typical autobiography, this collection of personal essays followed by an interview creates a composite picture of the poet's life and art. Hugo's difficult childhood, his love of softball, his service in World War II, his marriages, and his drinking problem are among the topics covered. Hugo comments on his poems throughout, and his explanations of their background provide a rare glimpse into the poet's creative process. Highly recommended for public and academic libraries with strong contemporary poetry collections. William Gargan, Brooklyn Coll. Lib., CUNY
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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