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The Real West Marginal Way: A Poet's Autobiography
by
Richard Hugo
,
James Welch
,
Ripley Hugo
,
Lois Welch
,
William Matthews
Hugo was also an editor of the Yale Younger Poets series and a distinguished teacher and master of the personal essay. Now many of his essays have been assembled and arranged by Ripley Hugo, the poet's widow and a writer and teacher, and Lois and James Welch, writers and close friends of the poet. Together the essays constitute a compelling autobiographical narrative that
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Paperback
,
261 pages
Published
June 17th 1992
by W. W. Norton & Company
(first published October 1st 1986)
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Since I recently got hooked on Hugo's poetry, and can identify
with where he grew up, I was glad to read this autobiography
to get a better idea of where his poems were coming from.
(Never from a place where "from" at the end of a sentence was
a big problem, that's for sure.) He was 58 when he died in 1982,
and this book and his collected poems were published after that,
but were assembled in accordance with his known plans and wishes.
Hard life, very productive despite or because of that.
with where he grew up, I was glad to read this autobiography
to get a better idea of where his poems were coming from.
(Never from a place where "from" at the end of a sentence was
a big problem, that's for sure.) He was 58 when he died in 1982,
and this book and his collected poems were published after that,
but were assembled in accordance with his known plans and wishes.
Hard life, very productive despite or because of that.
This is a series of personal essays, not quite chronological, by and about Richard Hugo, the Montana/Northwestern poet who has been unjustly neglected. He is clear, blunt, opinionated, funny, sentimental, honest, and, in the end, optimistic about the power of words and poetry to achieve personal redemption.
Wonderful autobiography about growing up in the Northwest, becoming a poet. But for me, most interesting as a document of life in Seattle in the 1930s and 1940s, and again in Missoula later on. Fantastically evocative description of the places he lived in and the people he lived among.
Richard Hugo grew up in South Seattle (White Center/Rat City) and worked at Boeing as he was becoming a poet. He attended UW and was in Theodore Roethke's first class.
I wrote a review that covered this book as well as four others. You can find it here:
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I read the first couple of chapters, because Hugo describes the area where I now live.
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Richard Hugo (December 21, 1923 - October 22, 1982), born Richard Hogan, was an American poet. Primarily a regionalist, Hugo's work reflects the economic depression of the Northwest, particularly Montana. Born in White Center, Washington, he was raised by his mother's pare ...more
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Richard Hugo (December 21, 1923 - October 22, 1982), born Richard Hogan, was an American poet. Primarily a regionalist, Hugo's work reflects the economic depression of the Northwest, particularly Montana. Born in White Center, Washington, he was raised by his mother's pare ...more
