News at Eleven: This book completes her [Frances McCue's] two-decade pursuit

of [Richard] Hugo and his work--it is an astute psychological portrait of Hugo and a superb reintroduction to his work. The "revisiting" part of the title is another matter.

McCue uses this format: she presents a poem or poems Hugo wrote, each focused on a town in Montana, Idaho or Washington. Then she writes an account of her visit to the same town, the history and background of the place and a meditation on how Hugo's poetry reflected it--or didn't.

from The Seattle Times: A road-tripping re-examination of the poems of Richard Hugo

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