Richard Hugo (1923–1982)

Author of The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing

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About the Author

Richard Hugo was born on December 21, 1923 in Seattle, Wash. He attended the University of Washington in Seattle and served in the U.S. Air Force during World War II. His flight experience led to his employment with Boeing from 1951 until 1963. In 1964, he left Boeing for a teaching position at the show more University of Montana at Missoula. Hugo was a noted author of poetry collections including A Run of Jacks, Good Luck in Cracked Italian, and The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir. His detailed descriptions of fishing, the landscape, and small town life are lovingly captured in his charming poems and generally reflect life in the Pacific Northwest. Full of whimsy and a delight to the reader, his poems capture the essence of regional America and everyday existence. Richard Hugo died in 1982. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Works by Richard Hugo

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The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing (1979) 694 copies, 3 reviews

Making Certain It Goes On: The Collected Poems of Richard Hugo (1984) 208 copies, 2 reviews

Death and the Good Life (1981) 112 copies, 2 reviews

Selected Poems (1979) 62 copies, 1 review

The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir (1973) 50 copies, 1 review

The Real West Marginal Way: A Poet's Autobiography (1986) 50 copies, 1 review

31 Letters and 13 Dreams: Poems (1977) 46 copies

Right Madness On Skye (1980) 35 copies, 1 review

What Thou Lovest Well, Remains American (1975) 31 copies

The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs: Revisiting the Northwest Towns of Richard Hugo (Samuel and Althea Stroum Book) (2010) 21 copies

White Center: Poems (1980) 15 copies

Duwamish head (A Copperhead chapbook) (1976) 8 copies

Road Ends at Tahola (1978) 6 copies

A run of jacks ; [poems] (1961) 5 copies

Death of the Kapowsin Tavern (1965) 5 copies

Good Luck in Cracked Italian (1969) 4 copies

Si tu meurs à Milltown (2004) 4 copies

Conspiracy of Mirrors (1990) 3 copies

Rain five days and I love it (1975) 3 copies

Meurtres cousus d'or (1981) 3 copies

Poems 2 copies

Het dagboek van Hitler (1985) 2 copies

To Women (included in The Norton Introduction to Literature - 5th Edition) 1 copy

Sea Lanes Out (1983) 1 copy

Die Havarie. Roman. ( Ullstein Thriller). (1997) 1 copy

Georgia Review, Summer 2008 1 copy

Farewell to Russia 1 copy

OS DIÁRIOS DE HITLER (VOL2) 1 copy

Places and Ways to Live (included in The Norton Introduction to Literature - 5th Edition) 1 copy

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The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry (1990) — Contributor — 855 copies, 3 reviews

Contemporary American Poetry (1962) — Contributor, some editions — 419 copies, 2 reviews

Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (1993) — Contributor — 377 copies, 2 reviews

American Religious Poems: An Anthology (2006) — Contributor — 185 copies, 2 reviews

Poets of World War II (2003) — Contributor — 149 copies, 2 reviews

The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink (2012) — Contributor — 73 copies, 1 review

The Ecopoetry Anthology (2013) — Contributor — 69 copies, 1 review

60 Years of American Poetry (1996) — Contributor — 34 copies, 1 review

American Review 20 (1974) — Contributor — 11 copies

Of Solitude and Silence (1981) — Contributor — 11 copies

#hardcover (2019) — Contributor — 8 copies

A Poet's Dozen: Fourteen Poems by Pacific Northwest Poets (1966) — Contributor — 3 copies

Dacotah territory 5 summer-fall 1973 — Contributor — 1 copy

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Canonical name: Hugo, Richard
Birthdate: 1923-12-21
Date of death: 1982-10-22
Gender: male
Relationships: Hugo, Ripley (wife)
Walker, Mildred (mother-in-law)
Nationality: USA
Map Location: USA

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KatrinkaV 703 reviews

Triggering Town by Richard Hugo

This might be one of those books, along with Dave Hickey’s Air Guitar, that somehow keep saving me.

May 12, 20262 other reviews

Condorena 606 reviews

Death and the Good Life by Richard Hugo

A homicide detective from Seattle is transplanted to an area near Missoula, Montana and is enjoying a quoted life that is short lived because there is a series of murders that disturbs the calm. Deputy Barnes has hisj good points and bad but he is footed in his determination to solve the crimes. He does turn out to be one of those guys who when he is not with the one he loves,loves the one he is with.

Apr 2, 20131 other review

NielsenGW 627 reviews

The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing by Richard Hugo

Hugo's essays are absolutely necessary reading for any budding poet. He quickly teaches the young writer what not to do and how to focus on important mechanics and styles of writing poetry.

http://lifelongdewey.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/808-the-triggering-town-by-richard...

Jan 17, 20122 other reviews

spoko 357 reviews

Making Certain It Goes on: The Collected Poems of Richard Hugo by Richard Hugo

Picked this up for the poem "Degrees of Grey in Philipsburg." I had written a poem for a seminar, and the prof told me it reminded me a lot of that poem. After reading Hugo's poem, I can see why. I wonder, in fact, if he wasn't accusing me of borrowing just a little too heavily from it. But I had never heard of Hugo before that, as I can recall.

My poem, in case you're curious, is available at http://tinyurl.com/deogq . Shameless plug? Why not?

Dec 17, 20051 other review

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