The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir

by Hugo, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780887483080
• ISBN10: 0887483089
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-02-01
• Publisher: Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr

Summary

Upon publication of The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir in 1973, Richard Howard wrote, "Richard Hugo's concern is the unenviable, the unenviable, the unvisited, even the univiting, which he must invest with his own deprivation, his own private war. . . . Each poem adds its incisive particulars to the general stoic wreck; but what startles, then reassures in all this canon of the inconsolable, the unsanctified, the dispossessed, is Hugo's poetics, the analogy of language to experience. . . . Richard Hugo is such an important poet because the difficulties inherent in his art provide him a means of saying what he has to say. It is no accident that he must develop a negative in order to produce a true image."

Author Biography

Richard Hugo (1923-1982) was a technical writer at Boeing and he became director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Montana.

Table of Contents

A Map of Montana in Italy	p. 3
The Milltown Union Bar	p. 5
Where Jennie Used to Swim	p. 6
Where Mission Creek Runs Hard for Joy	p. 7
Graves at Elkhorn	p. 9
St. Ignatius Where the Salish Wail	p. 10
Bad Eyes Spinning the Rock	p. 11
Dog Lake With Paula	p. 12
To Die in Milltown	p. 13
Pishkun	p. 15
Reclamation at Coloma	p. 17
Helena, Where Homes Go Mad	p. 18
Silver Star	p. 20
With Kathy in Wisdom	p. 22
Indian Graves at Jocko	p. 23
Drums in Scotland	p. 27
Chysauster	p. 28
Walking Praed Street	p. 29
Somersby	p. 31
The Prado: Bosch: S. Antonio	p. 32
The Prado: Number 2671, Anonimo Espanol	p. 33
At Cronkhite	p. 35
Upper Voight's, To All the Cutthroat There	p. 37
Taneum Creek	p. 38
The Gold Man on the Beckler	p. 39
Cataldo Mission	p. 43
Montgomery Hollow	p. 44
The End of Krim's Pad	p. 45
Old Map of Uhlerstown	p. 47
A Night With Cindy at Heitman's	p. 48
Point No Point	p. 49
Cornwall, Touring	p. 50
Shark Island	p. 51
The Tinker Camp	p. 52
Cleggan	p. 53
Crinan Canal	p. 54
The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir	p. 57
Ovando	p. 59
Driving Montana	p. 61
Montana Ranch Abandoned	p. 62
2433 Agnes, First Home, Last House in Missoula	p. 63
Ghosts at Garnet	p. 65
A Night at the Napi in Browning	p. 66
Camas Prairie School	p. 68
Missoula Softball Tournament	p. 69
Phoning from Sweathouse Creek	p. 71
The Only Bar in Dixon	p. 72
Dixon	p. 73
Hot Springs	p. 75
Bear Paw	p. 76
Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg	p. 78
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