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Heather McHugh (20 August 1948 / San Diego, California)
Poems of Heather McHugh
| 1. | After Su Tung P'o | 4/24/2012 |
| 2. | Amenities | 4/24/2012 |
| 3. | Better or Worse | 4/24/2012 |
| 4. | Constructive | 4/24/2012 |
| 5. | Dark View | 4/24/2012 |
| 6. | Debtor's Prison Road | 4/24/2012 |
| 7. | Elevated | 4/24/2012 |
| 8. | Etymological Dirge | 1/13/2003 |
| 9. | From the Tower | 4/24/2012 |
| 10. | Ghazal of the Better-Unbegun | 1/20/2003 |
| 11. | Ghoti | 1/13/2003 |
| 12. | Glass House | 4/24/2012 |
| 13. | Half Border, Half Lab | 4/24/2012 |
| 14. | In Praise of Pain | 4/24/2012 |
| 15. | Inside | 4/24/2012 |
| 16. | LEAF LITTER ON ROCK FACE | 4/24/2012 |
| 17. | Man in the Street or Hand Over Mouth | 4/24/2012 |
| 18. | Myrrha to the Source | 4/24/2012 |
| 19. | Nano-Knowledge | 1/13/2003 |
| 20. | No Sex for Priests | 4/24/2012 |
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What He Thought
We were supposed to do a job in Italy
and, full of our feeling for
ourselves (our sense of being
Poets from America) we went
from Rome to Fano, met
the Mayor, mulled a couple
matters over. The Italian literati seemed
bewildered by the language of America: they asked us
what does "flat drink" mean? and the mysterious
