3 Must-Read Andrew Hudgins Poems

Andrew Hudgins is an American poet who was born in Texas in 1951. He graduated from the Iowa writers workshop in 1983 with his MFA. His first book was published in 1986, titled Saints and Strangers, and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

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The Glass Hammer

‘The Glass Hammer’ by Andrew Hudgins reimagines an impactful childhood memory that explores the disaster naive and unheeding curiosity can lead to.

This poem by Hudgins is a good introduction to the rest of his poetry, it might not be his greatest work, but it does contain many features found throughout his other pieces. Namely, its irony and humor, which saturate everything from the speaker's ill-fated romp with the hammer to its spectacular destruction, which earns them both a visit to the doctor and a hammering from their mother.

My mother's knickknack crystal hammer

gleamed by her silver tray.

O pick me up and play with me,

I heard the hammer say

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Begotten

‘Begotten’ appears in the American poet Andrew Hudgins’ poetry collection The Glass Hammer: A Southern Childhood (1994). This poem is about a child finding his resemblance to the other members of his family.

Andrew Hudgins is an American poet known for writing about everyday life, family, and childhood with a mix of humor and seriousness. In 'Begotten', he focuses on a child's realization of how much they resemble their family, both in appearance and behavior. The poem uses a casual, almost lighthearted tone to look at deeper ideas about identity and belonging within a family.

I've never, as some children do,

looked at my folks and thought, I must

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We Were Simply Talking

‘We Were Simply Talking’ appears in the American poet Andrew Hudgins’ poetry collection Babylon in a Jar (1998). This piece is about a car accident the speaker managed to avoid.

We were simply talking, probably work, or relatives

or even Christmas presents, when the car slid

and I corrected, fishtailed and I corrected, then we were gone,

sliding sideways, sliding backward on black ice

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