McHugh is a technologically advanced poet. I love the lingo. A perfectly good violin already exists. When I read this, I felt a little embarrassed about my insistence to conduct an e-mail interview in false conversational time. Because of the medium, though, she couldn't see me blush.
Computer technology does challenge our writing traditions, especially for poetry.
I suddenly realized that I had become completely addicted to the purely arbitrary convention of the dimensions of typing paper. McHugh is steeped in the world of poets. Her translations of Paul Celan, Blaga Dimitrova, and Jean Follain show her knowledge of international poetry. Her essays, and sometimes her poems, examine Rilke, Dickinson, the ancient Greeks, and more. That, and her willingness to share it all.