Into these knots : poems / Ashley Anna McHugh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McHugh, Ashley Anna.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (81 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Ivan R. Dee, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The poems of Into These Knots, Ashley Anna McHugh's debut collection, glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, interrogating and elucidating in elegant and supercharged speech ultimate questions and intimate foibles. With equal parts intelligence and passion, Ms. McHugh can quarrel with scripture or riff on the amorous pleadings of Andrew Marvell or the stark musings of Baudelaire. Ms. McHugh's poems resound with a songlike intensity and an arresting power entirely their own. Personal meditations on loss, and the need to reconcile with the past, ground this collection, even as the po

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I; Deer Hunting; Into These Knots; One Important and Elegant Proof; "If you will, you can become all flame"; The Unquarried Blue of Those Depths Is All But Blinding; After the Affair; All Other Ground Is Sinking Sand; Ashes on Assateague Island; Ars Poetica; From His Coy Mistress; Strike; A Song for the Suicidal; . . . "Yesterday this time, I'd sing a love song" . . . (You Ask Me to Croon Ours Again); A Letter from Iceland; Part II; CAIRNS; Part III; Shepherd Road; Fling; He to Her; The Naturalist's Last Love Poem; In Praise of the Light Bulb

My Mother's Guide to Getting Hitched and Staying That WayWedding Anniversaries; Of this Burning Heart; Hunting Accident; The Last Man in Prague; Sure Enough; From Tuliptrees; Notes

Notes:

"Winner of the new Criterion Poetry Prize."

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

979-82-16-36199-2

1-282-93675-1

9786612936753

1-56663-911-5

OCLC:

696918882