{"product_id":"mchugh-heather-the-fatherpb","title":"McHugh, Heather: The Father of the Predicaments","description":"\u003cp\u003eWesleyan University Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: November 29, 2001\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003cb\u003eWhether sorrowful or sassy, the poems in this new collection bear McHugh's signature: a lively love for the very language she bewares.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAvailable now in paperback, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Father of the Predicaments\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Heather McHugh's first book since \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHinge\u0026amp;Sign\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was selected as a National Book Award finalist and chosen a Best Book of the Year by the\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. In this witty and deeply felt collection, McHugh takes her cue from Aristotle, who wrote that \"the father of the predicaments is being.\" For McHugh, being is intimately, though perhaps not ultimately, bound to language, and these poems cut to the quick, delivering their revelations with awesome precision.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817189027863,"sku":"9780819565068","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/7524936-L.jpg?v=1703281854","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/mchugh-heather-the-fatherpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}