Heather McHugh: Composition as Conversation (July 2013)

Heather McHugh does some etymological turns on the turns of verse—coming out in conversation with company and solitude, the controversial and the universal, the convertible and the converse. As always, her eye is on ambiguous and polyguous constructions of poetry; this time she reads poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, Alan Dugan, Frederick Seidel, Shirley Kaufman, and others.