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Making Certain It Goes On: The Collected Poems of Richard Hugo

Richard Hugo was, in James Wright's words, "a great poet, true to our difficult life." Making Certain It Goes Onbrings together, as Hugo wished, the poems published in book form during his lifetime, together with the new poems he wrote in his last years.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 496 pages

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