DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

31 Letters and 13 Dreams

Poems

Richard Hugo author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:WW Norton & Co

Published:1st Apr '77

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

31 Letters and 13 Dreams cover

Each letter is written from a specific place that Hugo has made his own (a “triggering town,” as he has called it elsewhere) to a friend, a fellow poet, an old love. We read over the poet’s shoulder as the town triggers the imagination, the friendship is re-opened, the poet’s selfhood is explored and illuminated. The “dreams” turn up unexpectedly (as dreams do) among the letters; their haunting images give further depth to the poet’s exploration. Are we overhearing them? Who is the “you” that dreams?

ISBN: 9780393044904

Dimensions: 203mm x 127mm x 25mm

Weight: 114g

80 pages