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Heather McHugh. Copper Canyon (Consortium, dist.), $22 (104p) ISBN 978-1-55659-306-2
McHugh's eighth book finds this acclaimed poet as odd and entertaining as ever, with her trademark slippery associative lines and jagged stanzas ("The mystery of speaking every day/ So plainly from a face she cannot see/ Unsettles her ..."), but also subtly sobered by growing older while living through the grim political climate of the last eight years. McHugh's short, jerky lines, odd rhymes, bemused gravity and slant perspective on the world at hand bring Emily Dickinson to mind. "The man of the moment would kill/to be man of the hour," …
