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From an aging body's slow disintegration to the deconstruction of the alphabet, McHugh's expansive collection challenges our roles within society.

McHugh takes on the fraught subject of empathy--how much people feel and do--for the afflicted.afflicted.

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A leading American poet reclaims the realm of criticism in distinctive and impassioned readings of poems and other works of art.

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An exquisite series of poems that explore living and dying.

A leading American poet reclaims the realm of criticism in distinctive and impassioned readings of poems and other works of art.

McHugh remains one of our most important and unusual poets.” -Publishers Weekly, starred review

National Book Award finalist Heather McHugh's new book is smart, high-velocity, tightly controlled, and verbally stunning.

Heather McHugh's new book, Eyeshot, is a brooding, visionary work that takes aim at the big questions--those of love and death. The poems suggest that such immensities balance on the smallest details, and that a range of human blindness is inescapable. The power of this new work comes from its delicate yet tenacious fidelity to the ever-unfolding senses of sense. The poems invite the reader to follow careening words and insights through passag...

Heather McHugh's new book, Eyeshot, is a brooding, visionary work that takes aim at the big questions-those of love and death. The poems suggest that such immensities balance on the smallest details, and that a range of human blindness is inescapable. The power of this new work comes from its delicate yet tenacious fidelity to the ever-unfolding senses of sense. The poems invite the reader to follow careening words and insights through passage...

The new poems are a striking body of work...Heather McHugh's Hinge & Sign is not to be missed."--Colorado Review

Available now in paperback, The Father of the Predicaments is Heather McHugh's first book since Hinge & Sign was selected as a National Book Award finalist and chosen a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times and Publishers Weekly. In this witty and deeply felt collection, McHugh takes her cue from Aristotle, who wrote that "the father of the predicaments is being." For McHugh, being is intimately, though perhaps not ultimately, bound to l...