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If ourse were a more reverent country than the one John Ashbery and heather McHugh gorgeously exemplify, these two would long ago have been made to endure the title of national treasures. For the treasure we too long have taken for granted—our fractions, healing, double-dealing, on-the-make vernacular—is nowhere so richly turned to account as in the poems they have been giving us for years.

—Linda Gregerson, New York Times Book Review

The Father of the Predicaments is Heather McHugh's first book since Hinge & Sign was selected as a National Book Award finalist and chosen a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times and Publishers Weekly. In this witty and deeply felt collection, McHugh takes her cue from Aristotle, who wrote that "the father of the predicaments is being." For McHugh, being is intimately, though not ultimately, bound to language, and these poems cut to the quick, delivering their revelations with awesome precision.

Hardcover. 1999.