The Father of the Predicaments
by McHugh, HeatherFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-09-01
Publisher(s): Wesleyan Univ Pr
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Summary
Whether sorrowful or sassy, the poems in this new collection bear McHugh's signature: a lively love for the very language she bewares.
Table of Contents
| Not a Prayer | p. 3 |
| Not Unterrified | p. 21 |
| Past All Understanding | p. 23 |
| Moon and TV | p. 25 |
| One Woe | p. 27 |
| Three To's and an Oi | p. 28 |
| Fast | p. 30 |
| Questions for the Moon (after Rainer Maria Rilke) | p. 31 |
| The Father of the Predicaments | p. 32 |
| For Raya | p. 33 |
| Spill of Howl | p. 37 |
| Ghazal of the Better-Unbegun | p. 39 |
| So Thick? | p. 40 |
| My Hexahedron Mated with His Cone | p. 42 |
| The Starrier the Scarier | p. 43 |
| Wise Ease | p. 44 |
| Out of Mind | p. 45 |
| Mens in the West | p. 46 |
| If Only | p. 47 |
| Streaming Audio | p. 48 |
| Sun Grounded in Sky-Pool | p. 49 |
| Dust Jacket | p. 50 |
| Verdict | p. 52 |
| Neitherer Brings Charges | p. 53 |
| Sizing | p. 55 |
| The Brink | p. 56 |
| The Gulf Between the Given and the Gift | p. 57 |
| Not So Fast | p. 58 |
| A Night Is All | p. 59 |
| Ein Ander | p. 60 |
| The Water | p. 61 |
| Deposition of the Seer | p. 62 |
| A Salt: Three Variations on Five Senses | p. 63 |
| Cartographer at Home | p. 64 |
| Nano-Knowledge | p. 68 |
| Open Air | p. 70 |
| Interior (after Paul Valery) | p. 71 |
| Qua Qua Qua | p. 75 |
| Etymological Dirge | p. 77 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 79 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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