The Right Madness on Skye: Poems

by Richard Hugo

Overview

In an essay on Richard Hugo, the poet James Wright called him “one of the precious few poets of our age . . . who has, and sustains, an abiding vision.” Hugo took that vision to Skye with him: he makes Scottish history, legends, and “triggering towns” his own in these new poems, just as he has earlier done in poems of the American West. And in making them his own, he makes them our own as well. He continues to be, in Wright’s words, “a great poet, true to our difficult life.”

In September of 1977 Richard Hugo and his family went to live for several months on the Isle of Skye, off the coast of Scotland. One of the results of that experience is this new and impressive volume of poems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393009828
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	05/17/1980
Edition description:	1st ed
Pages:	64
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Richard Hugo was for many years the director of the creative writing program at the University of Montana, Missoula Campus. He received the Theodore Roethke Memorial Prize and was twice nominated for the National Book Award.