The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
“I don’t know why we do it. We must be crazy./Welcome, fellow poet.”—Richard Hugo\ Richard Hugo, whom Carolyn Kizer called “one of the most passionate, energetic and honest poets living,” was that rare phenomenon—a distinguished poet who was also an inspiring teacher. The Triggering Town is Hugo’s classic collection of lectures, essays, and reflections, all “directed toward helping with that silly, absurd, maddening, futile, enormously rewarding activity: writing poems.” From pieces that...
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"Richard Hugo's free-swinging, go-for-it remarks on poetry and the teaching of poetry are exactly what are needed in classrooms and in the world."—James Dickey
\ James Dickey“Richard Hugo’s free-swinging, go-for-it remarks on poetry and the teaching of poetry are exactly what are needed in classrooms and in the world.”\ \ \ \ \ James Welch“Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, and an ear for language, and a bit of imagination could become a writer.”\ \
