Book description
A renowned poet's artful collection is a striking body of work
"A zealously crafted improvisation...her work is a testing ground
of edges, allegiances and resistances." --Publishers Weekly
HEATHER MCHUGH is Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence and
Professor of English at the University of Washington in Seattle. She
regularly teaches at the low residency MFA Program at Warren Wilson
College. She is the author of six books of poetry, including, most
recently, The Father of the Predicaments (Wesleyan 1999). In 1993,
Wesleyan published her literary essays, Broken English: Poetry and
Partiality. She has translated the work of Jean Follain, and with her
husband Nikolai Popov, the work of Blaga Dimitrova and Glottal Stop: 101
Poems by Paul Celan (Wesleyan 2000). In 1999, she was elected a
chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
