Pining for Heather McHugh

• Published in: The Sewanee review Vol. 127; no. 1; pp. 66 - 77
• Main Author: Chiasson, Dan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 01.12.2019
• Subjects: 21st century; American literature; Cognates; Literary criticism; McHugh, Heather; Meaning; Poetry; Space; Women; Writers

(McHugh's toggling between the self as a subject and the self as an object, seeing as a thing-seen, is everywhere rapid and surprising.) It's a poem about vision trouble, in part, and its magnificent blur begins with its title, two identically weighted words — almost, to the naked eye, cog...