Richard Hugo Comments

Most of the towns Richard wrote about were in Montana....." Degrees of Grey Philipsburg" being one of those fine poems.

The Letter to Kathy is my favourite poem.

I like Hugo's poems set in the Pacific Northwest very much. you often imagine a man on his own driving around to remote, lost towns, which have seen better times. The car is a feature that I like in the poems. in the towns, you meet a few characters who are anonymous yet memorable too- like the prisoner and the red-haired waitress in 'Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg'. Richard Hugo's poems are full of life and vigour, written in a modern form.