Richard Hugo 
The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing [EPUB ebook] 

‘Richard Hugo’s free-swinging, go-for-it remarks on poetry and the teaching of poetry are exactly what are needed in classrooms and in the world.’—James Dickey

Richard Hugo was that rare phenomenon of American letters—a distinguished poet who was also an inspiring teacher.
The Triggering Town is Hugo’s now-classic collection of lectures, essays, and reflections, all ‘directed toward helping with that silly, absurd, maddening, futile, enormously rewarding activity: writing poems.’ Anyone, from the beginning poet to the mature writer to the lover of literature, will benefit greatly from Hugo’s sayd, playful, profound insights and advice concerning the mysteries of literary creation.

About the author

Richard Hugo (1923-1982) was for many years the director of the creative writing program at the University of Montana, Missoula Campus. He received the Theodore Roethke Memorial Prize and was twice nominated for the National Book Award.