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UA Poetry Center
Heather McHugh: A Lecture
In this lecture, Heather McHugh discusses the design and impact of the ends of poems, including close readings of powerful last lines including examples from the work of Emo Philips, Abd-ar-Rahman III, Su Tung-po, Anthony Hecht, D.H. Lawrence, Paul Valéry, Alan Dugan, Julio Cortázar, Louis Simpson, Samuel Beckett, and John Frederick Nims.
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Welcome and Introduction
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by Annie Guthrie
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On the relationship between spatial design and the endings of lineated poems
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On equipoise; on withholding and revelation in lineated poetry
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On expectation, surprise, and refusal as poetic devices
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