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Into These Knots
Ashley McHugh
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Description for Into These Knots
Hardback. "Winner of the new Criterion Poetry Prize." Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 240.
The poems of Into These Knots, Ashley Anna McHugh's debut collection, glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, interrogating and elucidating in elegant and supercharged speech ultimate questions and intimate foibles. With equal parts intelligence and passion, Ms. McHugh can quarrel with scripture or riff on the amorous pleadings of Andrew Marvell or the stark musings of Baudelaire. In "Cairns," a brilliant sequence that plays with the boundaries of the sonnet, mountain hikes in rural West Virginia trace, among other things, the difficult pathways to the divine. Ms. McHugh's poems resound with a songlike intensity and an ... Read more
The poems of Into These Knots, Ashley Anna McHugh's debut collection, glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, interrogating and elucidating in elegant and supercharged speech ultimate questions and intimate foibles. With equal parts intelligence and passion, Ms. McHugh can quarrel with scripture or riff on the amorous pleadings of Andrew Marvell or the stark musings of Baudelaire. In "Cairns," a brilliant sequence that plays with the boundaries of the sonnet, mountain hikes in rural West Virginia trace, among other things, the difficult pathways to the divine. Ms. McHugh's poems resound with a songlike intensity and an ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566638784
SKU
V9781566638784
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About Ashley McHugh
Ashley Anna McHugh's poems have appeared in The New Criterion, Measure, The Hopkins Review, and Smartish Pace, and she has also written Become All Flame, a chapbook of her poems. Ms. McHugh studied at The Ohio State University and at Boston University, and is now pursuing an M.F.A. in creative writing at the University of Arkansas. She received the 2009 ... Read more
Reviews for Into These Knots
...Much here feels honest, gracefully shaped, and true to human emotional complexity.
Antioch Review
Into These Knots is a remarkable book, even more remarkable because it is Ashley Anna McHugh's first full-length volume. It should put to rest any lingering question of whether formal poetry is adequate to express contemporary thought and emotion.
World Literature Today
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Antioch Review
Into These Knots is a remarkable book, even more remarkable because it is Ashley Anna McHugh's first full-length volume. It should put to rest any lingering question of whether formal poetry is adequate to express contemporary thought and emotion.
World Literature Today
... Read more