Heather McHugh and the Schooling of American Poetry

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Heather McHugh and the Schooling of American Poetry

Heather McHugh. Broken English: Poetry and Partiality. Wesleyan University Press 1993. 152 pp. $14.95 (paper)

Heather McHugh. Eyeshot. Wesleyan University Press 2003 54 pp. $20.00

Heather McHugh. Hinge & Sign: Poems: 1968-1993. Wesleyan University Press 1994. 219 pp. $15.95 (paper)

Heather McHugh. The Father of the Predicaments. University Press of New England 1999. 80 pp. $19.95

Years before he became a faculty fixture at Brooklyn College, Allen Ginsberg delicately suggested that most literature professors wouldn't recognize poetry "if it buggered hem on the street." These days, the academy …