Heather McHugh Summary

In the following excerpt, Gioia notes the lack of depth in the poems comprising A World of Difference. When Heather McHugh published Dangers, her first book, in 1977, she was greeted by critics of ... Read more

In the following review, Muratori compares To the Quick to David Ray's Sam's Book. Despite differences in manner and approach, these two poets [McHugh and David Ray] share a need to r... Read more

In the following favorable review, the anonymous critic calls the poetry in Hinge and Sign “a testing ground of edges, allegiances and resistances.” McHugh (Broken English) is a cereb... Read more

In the following excerpt, Murphy explores McHugh's use of language in the poems of Hinge and Sign. Heather McHugh's selection of a quarter century of her poems [Hinge and Sign] is a v... Read more

In the following review, Lynch identifies the key thematic concerns of the poems comprising The Father of the Predicaments. National Book Award finalist McHugh tackles caregiving for a dying relati... Read more

In the following excerpt, Murphy notes McHugh's clever and often powerful use of language in The Father of the Predicaments. More than half a century ago Edmund Wilson argued in the essay &#... Read more

In the following excerpt, Becker maintains that with her poem “Not a Prayer” McHugh “sets out to establish a theater of voices in crisis, and she succeeds.” Heather McHu... Read more

In the following review, the anonymous critic views the poems of Eyeshot as a return to McHugh's “signature bravura and obsessive word play.” With an oeuvre that includes criti... Read more