num_pages: 128
description: "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 Richard Hugo was that rare phenomenon of American letters―a distinguished poet who was also an inspiring teacher. The Triggering Town is Hugo's now-classic collection of lectures, essays, and reflections, all "directed toward helping with that silly, absurd, maddening, futile, enormously rewarding activity: writing poems." Anyone, from the beginning poet to the mature writer to the lover of literature, will benefit greatly from Hugo's sayd, playful, profound insights and advice concerning the mysteries of literary creation.
language: English
title: The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
titlecomplete: The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
genres: Read For School, Essays, How To, Crafts, School, Poetry, Reference, Nonfiction, Writing, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 2904
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Washington State Book Award
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company