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Literature & Fiction

Hague, Richard

Poetry

Ohio State Univ Pr

Milltown Natural: Essays and Stories from a Life

Essays & Correspondence

Bottom Dog Pr

Richard Hague lives in Cincinnati and teaches at Purcell Marian High School. He is the author of many essays and stories of Ohio as well as four books of poetry

Bottom Dog Press

Strong poems about the industrial Midwest and the struggles of families to survive.

Alive in Hard Country: Poems (Working Lives Series, 16)

Garden

WordTech Communications LLC

The Time It Takes Light

Public Hearings

Poetry. "I had the privilege of interviewing Richard Hague not so many years ago about poetry and teaching and this, among the many things we discussed, will always remain with me: as far back as his college years he knew that his job 'was not to become a poet that sounded the same at 60 as he had at 20 and whose subject matters remained the same at 60 as they were at 20. Given the variety of life, and given the variety of things that are interesting and things that poetry can be made from, why the hell would you want to limit yourself to one sort of specialized niche that is all yours? Poetry is vast. It's large. You follow Whitman's 'I am large, I contain multitudes.' And so, too, are these poems massive and multifarious in how and what they approach, but seen always through Dick Hague's exacting eye for the specific and strange. His whole universe of poetry is 'a kind of resonance and harmony' where '[e]ven language folds into itself / in odd places' and we, his readers, are grateful that it is so." Pauletta Hansel"

Beasts, River, Drunk Men, Garden, Burst, & Light - Sequences & Long Poems

Dos Madres Press

Poetry. "STUDIED DAYS sings with strange and sensual enchantment, calling the reader into that other time, that other 'halfway place of slopes' where human longing assumes memory's abiding shapes. Know the well with its 'single eye of moonlight shimmer[ing] at the bottom, forty lean years deep.' Study the woman in the night, naked and sleeping upon creek stone, only one dream away from betrayal--and consider, too, how the bearded, bloodied, drunken man stumbles through 'frog-slicked ditches' toward experience's ripening truth. The Appalachian Ohio landscapes of Hague's early manhood hold the lonely language of birds, insects, dark waters--it is here where the dead must rise to assume 'the holy duties of their flesh' and where the living keep 'going down' to make sense of the shadowy places beyond home. Exuberance and grief entwine in this stunning narrative collection." --Sherry Cook Stanforth

Studied Days - Poems Early & Late in Appalachia

Dick Hague�s Earnest Occupations digs into the rich, complex soil of place, time, and rootedness. Like Frost, Hague seeks to make his avocation and vocation one and the same, so the work of teaching, writing, and gardening weave into the fabric of �an integrated life� full with the poetry of �the grackle-dazzled air.� Hague cultivates students; he hoes rows of words; he learns the language of a garden. And he shares it all with us. Read, dear reader, and be supped and renewed. --Jim Minick, author of Fire Is Your Water

Earnest Occupations: Teaching, Writing, Gardening, and Other Local Work (Harmony Memoir Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

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