2 Heather McHugh Poems

Heather McHugh is an American poet and teacher. She graduated from Harvard University and is best known for her work Dangers. She has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and has received numerous other prizes and grants.

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What He Thought

‘What He Thought’ by Heather McHugh is a thoughtful poem about the meaning of poetry.

This poem is a good example of Heather McHugh's work, although it is by no means her most well known piece. She is a prolific writer and has published many collections and anthologies in her lifetime. Heather McHugh is an American poet who has received critical acclaim throughout her career. "What He Thought" was originally published in an anthology called "Hinge & Sign: Poems 1968-1993."

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

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Language Lesson 1976

‘Language Lesson 1976’ by Heather McHugh is a thoughtful poem. In it, the speaker uses language cleverly to make statements about America and love.

When Americans say a man

takes liberties, they mean

he's gone too far. In Philadelphia today I saw

a kid on a leash look mom-ward

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