← Richard HugoDeath of the Kapowsin Tavernby Richard HugoPoems elegizing small-town Pacific Northwest bars and working-class lifeFind on Amazon↗About the authorRichard HugoAmerican 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.More by Richard HugoA Run of Jacks→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→
