Ashley McHugh

Into These Knots (eBook, ePUB)

Winner of the New Criterion Poetry Prize

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The poems of Into These Knots, Ashley Anna McHugh''s debut collection, glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, interrogating and elucidating in elegant and supercharged speech ultimate questions and intimate foibles. With equal parts intelligence and passion, Ms. McHugh can quarrel with scripture or riff on the amorous pleadings of Andrew Marvell or the stark musings of Baudelaire. Ms. McHugh''s poems resound with a songlike intensity and an arresting power entirely their own. Personal meditations on loss, and the need to reconcile with the past, ground this collection, even as the poems struggle against their precarious conclusions. Skillfully crafted, the poems in Into These Knots capture a precise clarity of cadence, accompanied by an exacting attention to the intricacies of traditional verse. Frequently returning to their tonic chord of doubt, the poems never abandon their search for a lasting belief, an attainable transcendence, and, above all, the possibility of forgiveness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 88
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781566639118
• Artikelnr.: 53261579

Autorenporträt

Ashley Anna McHugh's poems have appeared in The New Criterion, Measure, The Hopkins Review, and Smartish Pace, and she has also written Become All Flame, a chapbook of her poems. Ms. McHugh studied at The Ohio State University and at Boston University, and is now pursuing an M.F.A. in creative writing at the University of Arkansas. She received the 2009 Morton Marr Poetry Prize. She is also a senior editor for Linebreak and lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.