The Father of the Predicaments (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0819565067
ISBN 13
9780819565068
Category
Kai
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Publication Year
2001
Publisher
Pages
86
Description
Available now in paperback, The Father of the Predicaments is Heather McHugh's first book since Hinge & Sign was selected as a National Book Award finalist and chosen a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times and Publishers Weekly. In this witty and deeply felt collection, McHugh takes her cue from Aristotle, who wrote that "the father of the predicaments is being." For McHugh, being is intimately, though perhaps not ultimately, bound to language, and these poems cut to the quick, delivering their revelations with awesome precision - from Amzon
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1
