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Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing

by Richard Hugo

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The Triggering Town is hugo's now-classic collection of lectures, essays, and reflections, all 'directed toward helping the [the writer] with that silly, absurd, maddening, futile, enormously rewarding activity: writing poems.' Anyone, from the beginning poet to the mature writer to the lover of literature, will benefit greatly from Hugo's sage, playful, profound insights and advice concerning the mysteries of literary creation.

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"Richard Hugo's free-swinging, go-for-it remarks on poetry and the teaching of poetry are exactly what are needed in classrooms and in the world."-James Dickey
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ISBN:
9780393309331
Subtitle:
Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
Author:
Hugo, Richard
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literature
Subject:
Poetry
Subject:
Authorship
Subject:
History, criticism and surveys
Subject:
History and criticism
Subject:
Poetics
Series Volume:
292
Publication Date:
August 1992
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
128
Dimensions:
8.21x5.46x.48 in. .31 lbs.
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