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It Looks Like a Man
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Praise for McHugh's poetry "Her writing is so alert to itself, so alert to language, it's like watching a dancer on a mirrored floor, stepping on her steps. She's practically playing with her words as she writes them down." -Robert Hass, Washington Post Book World"....McHugh remains one of our most important and unusual poets...."-Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)"If McHugh is serious, she's anything but grim; with all her punning, bantering, and mock scolding of herself . . . she brightens the shadowy corners of her world with verbal pyrotechnics."-The New York Times Book Review"McHugh is known as a challenging wordsmith, but, as this collection reveals, she is also a compassionate eyewitness . . . Her lines are animated but serious, and though they accelerate quickly, meaning and humor can be found in a single word."-The New Yorker"Her poems are open, resilient, invisibly twisted: part safety net, part trampoline."-The Village Voice Literary Supplement"In poems that are rich with wordplay-puns, rhymes, syntactical twists-Heather McHugh reveals the complex layers of meaning that individual words or phrases contain. The result is intellectually challenging, yet emotionally engaging verse that balances gravity with humor."-The MacArthur Foundation
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
72
Release Date:
2026-01-06
Publication Date:
2026-01-01
Publisher:
Wesleyan University Press
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0819502405
ISBN13:
9780819502407
Weight:
110 g
Height:
127 cm
Width:
178 cm
Thickness:
5 cm
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