The Real West Marginal Way - A Poet's Autobiography

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.

About the author

Richard Hugo (1923-1982) was for many years the director of the creative writing program at the University of Montana, Missoula Campus. He received the Theodore Roethke Memorial Prize and was twice nominated for the National Book Award.At the time of his death in 2003, James Welch was considered one of the most important authors of the American West. His books include Fool’s Crow and Winter in the Blood.

Summary

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."

Product details

• Authors: Richard Hugo, Ripley Hugo, Hugo Richard
• Assisted by: Ripley S. Hugo (Editor), Hugo Ripley S. (Editor), James Welch (Editor), Lois Welch (Editor), Welch James (Editor), Welch Lois (Editor), William Matthews (Introduction)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.01.2010
• EAN: 9780393308600
• ISBN: 978-0-393-30860-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 211 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 370 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Production & Operations Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Quality Control, American English, Poetry by individual poets, Production & quality control management, Production and quality control management, Poetry / poems by individual poets