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Informationen zum Autor Frances McCue is a writer and poet living in Seattle, where she is writer-in-residence at the University of Washington's Undergraduate Honors Program. She was the founding director of Richard Hugo House from 1996 to 2006. McCue is the author of The Stenographer's Breakfast , winner of the Barnard New Women Poets Prize. Mary Randlett is a Northwest photographer noted for her portraits of artists and writers. Mary Randlett Landscapes celebrates her photographs of the natural world. Klappentext Poet Richard Hugo visited places and wrote about them, including towns in Washington, Idaho, and Montana--especially their bars and diners. Part travelogue, memoir, and literary scholarship, this book follows Frances McCue and Mary Randlett in their search for the towns that inspired the poems. Their essays and photographs--and 23 of Hugo's poems--offer a fresh view of Hugo's Northwest.--Frances McCue is artistic director and cofounder of the Richard Hugo House in Seattle and writer in residence at the University of Washington. Zusammenfassung Part travelogue! part memoir! and part literary scholarship! this title traces the journey of the author to the towns that inspired many of his poems. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations ¶Acknowledgments ¶Setting Out ¶White Center, Riverside, and the Duwamish "Duwamish" "West Marginal Way" "Duwamish Head" "Duwamish No. 2" "White Center" Along the Duwamish Cataldo, Idaho "Cataldo Mission" Overlooking the Mission Wallace, Idaho "Letter to Gildner from Wallace" The Last Stoplight Dixon and St. Ignatius, Montana "The Only Bar in Dixon" "Dixon" "St. Ignatius Where the Salish Wail" The Flathead Goes Home North Northwest Milltown, Montana "The Milltown Union Bar" "Letter to Logan from Milltown" "To Die in Milltown" "Elegy" Under the Shadow of the Milltown Walkerville, Montana / Butte, America "Letter to Levertov from Butte" Where the Poor Look Down Upon the Rich and Some People Dance the Cool-Water Hula Philipsburg, Montana - "Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg" - Where the Red Hair Lights the Wall Silver Star, Montana "Silver Star" Short Story in Silver Star Pony, Montana "Letter to Oberg from Pony" Prose Poems in Pony Fairfield, Montana "Fairfield" "High Grass Prairie" Not This Town La Push, Washington "La Push" "Letter to Bly from La Push" The Last Places Epilogue at Taholah, Washington "Tahola" "Road Ends at Tahola" Epilogue Notes ...
