Hinge & Sign: Poems, 1968-1993.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McHugh, Heather

Series:

Wesleyan Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Hinge and sign.

Place of Publication:

Middletown : Wesleyan University Press, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A renowned poet's artful collection is a striking body of work

Contents:

Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; after Rilke; New Poems (1987-1993); What He Thought; Acts of God; I. Tornado; II. Lightning; Window: Thing as Participle; Curve; Dry Time; Seal; Two-Legged; Fast; Coming; Glimpse of Main Event; My Shepherd; Untitled; The Woman Who Laughed on Calvary; Eastport; Well; Unguent; Some Kind of Pine; Numberless; To Go; Connubial; Prothalamion; The Size of Spokane; Auto; Better or Worse; Two St. Petersburgs; White Mind and Roses; Scenes from a Death; 32 Adults (1990); Uncollected Poems (1975-1986); Postcard from Provincetown; Circus

Sebastian's MirrorA; Just Man; Live; Five Threes (Fast Bike); Two Holidays; A Night in a World; For a Sad God; The Song Calls the Star Little; Faith; Kind of Poor; For a Good Man; Lifelike; Disappearee's Song; The Act; Where; Household; To a Christian; A Hurricane Can Cast; Denomination; Literal; Poems from Dangers (1968-1977); Spectacles; Orbit; Pupil; Preferences; In Praise of Pain; The Score; Ozone; To See the Light; A Few Licks; Tendencies; Gig at Big Al's; The Most; Outcry; Fable; Patronage; Double Agent; Politics; Fix; Excerpt from an Argument with Enthusiasts, Concerning Inspiration

ReservationAgainst a Dark Field; Debtors' Prison Road; It is 70 degrees in late November. Opening a window, you nearly know; Stroke; Solitary's Solace in the Natural Sciences; Poems from A World of Difference (1977-1981); The Field; The House; Like; The Fall; At a Loss; Mind; Meantime; Blue Streak; Meaning Business; Confessionist; Impressionist; Whoosh; Stall; Hag; High Jinx; North Island Songs; Language Lesson 1976; Toward an Understanding; Inside; Form; Syllables; The Nymph to Narcissus; When the Future is Black; Message at Sunset for Bishop Berkeley; Breath

Poems from To the Quick (1981-1987)Four Poems after Rilke; The Amenities; In a World of Taking, the Mistake; Two Loves; The Trouble with "In"; Spot in Space and Time; I Knew I'd Sing; Constructive; To God or Man; Bear in English; Animal Song; Take Care; What Could Hold Us; Point of Origin; To the Quick; Bar and Grill; A Physics; Big Ideas Among Earthlings; Or Else; The Ghost; What Poems Are For; The Matter Over; Poems from Shades (1981-1988); Mox Nox; 20-200 on 747; What Hell Is; Unspeakable; Inflation; The Lyricist's Lament; The Oven Loves the TV Set; Who Made Her; Earthmoving Malediction

Hole FillerID; To Have To; Not a Sin; Spilled; Hard; Melted Money; Stairwell; Labor; The Typewriter's the Kind; Place Where Things Got; Round Time; Shades; Thought of Night; From 20,000 Feet; Acknowledgments

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8195-7212-8

1-283-11016-4

9786613110169

0-585-37627-1

OCLC:

767498254