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Title: A Humble Great Poet
Review: I heard Richard Hugo read at the Iowa Writer's Workshop when I attended. He read primarily from the book, The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir, ending with Degrees of Gray in Philisburg. It is a haunting poem, one he said was his most anthologized. I have a tape of him reading it and other poems. I recited it to myself to remember how the use of ordinary language, supplemented with sterling metaphors and turns of phrases, such as "You might come here on w Whim./Say your life broke down," make this poem live on in ways most don't. He was a great man, but took time to talk to me about his work and mine. The comments he made before and during the reading were indeed a manual on how to write poems people will take to their hearts. I miss him.
