Hinge & Sign
Poems, 1968–1993
Heather McHugh

Wesleyan Poetry Series
Wesleyan University Press
distributed by University Press of New England

1994 • 237 pp. 5 1/2 x 9"
Poetry

$16.95 Paper, 0-8195-1216-8


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“A zealously crafted improvisation…her work is a testing ground of edges, allegiances and resistances.” —Publishers Weekly

A renowned poet’s artful collection.

“By turning language into courage, she manages to bounce you back from despair, keeps moving fear and pity into precarious laughter. Her poems are open, resilient, invisibly twisted: part safety net, part trampoline.”
Voice Literary Supplement

“The new poems are a striking body of work…Heather McHugh’s Hinge & Sign is not to be missed.”—Colorado Review

“McHugh brings poems from four previous volumes together with a significant amount of new work…[She] artfully entwines the prosaic with the empyrean, twisting mundane images into verbal feasts, letting language flow through her hands rather than shaping it to her will… This collection allows one to appreciate the development of her poetry over 25 years and to witness he increasing strength and maturity of her voice.”
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HEATHER MCHUGH has been Professor of English and Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the University of Washington (Seattle) for the past decade and a visiting faculty member in the MF Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College since its inception. She has translated the work of Jean Follain, and “with her husband (Niko Boris McHugh) collections of poems by Blaga Dimitrova and by Paul Celan. In 1993 Wesleyan published her literary essay, Broken English: Poetry and Partiality.








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