27:1 Summer 1975

RICHARD HUGO

Letter to Simic From Boulder

Richard Hugo’s “Letter to Simic from Boulder” was included with three other poems in the “Talking American Poetry” issue of Summer 1975.  It was later included with similar poems in his collection, 31 Letters and 13 Dreams (1977).  These poems were written in a period when he was suffering from loneliness and alcoholism following the failure of his first marriage; the letters were an attempt to reach out from that loneliness.  Hugo served in the army air corps during World War II.

[DN, 1996]

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