5/01/10 Update: One of the annual programs Humanities Montana offers this state is One Book Montana; this year’s book is Richard Hugo’s Selected Poems. Many of the poems on the Eat Stone CDs are in Selected Poems. See the One Book Montana website for more information.

The CDs are available in hundreds of Montana public and high school libraries. They are also available in the University of Idaho Libraries, and in Washington State, at Seattle Public Libraries and The University of Washington – Seattle. The CDs are also available nationwide via interlibrary loan; ask your local librarian to check WorldCat and borrow them for you.

“his poetry…lifts us into a realm
where everything is of consequence,
which we always knew it was,
and never found the means
to say it.” – James Dickey

Richard Hugo (1923-1982) published eight books of poetry, including Making Certain It Goes On: The Collected Poems of Richard Hugo, the book of essays The Triggering Town, a poet’s autobiography titled The Real West Marginal Way and the mystery novel Death and the Good Life.

Born in Seattle, Hugo was a WWII Army Air Corps veteran, worked at Boeing for thirteen years and played semi-professional softball. He taught for 17 years in the writing program at the University of Montana, received the Roethke Poetry Award, a Guggenheim, an Academy of American Poets Fellowship and was an editor of the Yale Younger Poet series.

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