The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing - Softcover

Richard Hugo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 039333872X ISBN 13: 9780393338720

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 2010

Synopsis

Richard Hugo was that rare phenomenon-a distinguished poet who was also an inspiring teacher. The Triggering Town is his classic collection of lectures, essays and reflections "directed toward helping with that silly, absurd, maddening, futile, enormously rewarding activity: writing poems". The beginning poet, the mature writer and the lover of literature will all benefit from Hugo's playful and profound insights into literary creation.

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Review:

Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, and an ear for language, and a bit of imagination could become a writer.--James Welch, author of Fools Crow

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, author of Deliverance

About the Author:

Richard Hugo was for many years the director of the creative writing program at the University of Montana, Missoula Campus. He received the Theodore Roethke Memorial Prize and was twice nominated for the National Book Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 039333872X
• ISBN 13: 9780393338720
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 109