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- Title
The Crux of the Matter: Heather McHugh.
- Authors
Hammer, Langdon
- Abstract
This article features poet Heather McHugh. McHugh's Hinge & Sign: Poems, 1968-1993, collecting the work of the first half of a lively poetic career, made it apparent that she is a poet of rare intellectual ambition, verbal playfulness, and emotional intensity. McHugh finds the world in and through words. This is what all poetry must do, but her wordplay makes people especially aware of the process. As she moves along the line and down the page in her edgy free verse, sparked with internal and end rhyme, McHugh activates the semiotic dimension of language. She likes to play with clichés and colloquialisms, making them strange and sometimes haunting.
- Subjects
MCHUGH, Heather; POETS; HINGE &; Sign (Book); POETRY (Literary form); FREE verse; RHYME; CLICHES; COLLOQUIAL language
- Publication
American Scholar, 2006, Vol 75, Issue 3, p41
- ISSN
0003-0937
- Publication type
Article