Richard Hugo
American poet of the Pacific Northwest whose poems explore the decaying small towns of Montana and Washington with rugged compassion. The Triggering Town is his influential essay collection.
Works
- A Run of Jacks
- Death of the Kapowsin TavernPoems elegizing small-town Pacific Northwest bars and working-class life
- Good Luck in Cracked ItalianEssays and poems blending literary criticism with personal reflection
- The Lady in Kicking Horse ReservoirPoems on landscape, family, and mortality in the American West