Title: Into these knots : poems /
Authors: McHugh, Ashley Anna.
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee,
Year: 2010
Abstract: "The poems in Into These Knots are graceful and powerful in equal measure--beautifully written raids on the inarticulate from a clear-eyed poet probing the beginnings of song in the unsayable. The beautiful balance extends throughout poems; the emotional resonances of every thought are weighed carefully and every emotion is fully thought through. Love may be, as Ashley Anna McHugh tells us, ̀a rust-worn boat, ' but with her (and thrilled to be along for the ride), ̀We thread / A slow wake through the water--then silently, / We start to row, and will for as long as this lasts."'--Andrew Hudgins.