A review by matthewwester
Broken English: Poetry and Partiality by Heather McHugh

4.0

There's a lot to like about this book but be warned, it's dense. Sometimes overly so. McHugh loves to mess with language so often sentences break down a bit and you'll have to retrace, or suspend, or bifurcate your thoughts as you're following the book's arguments. She covers a lot in 136 pages; I especially enjoyed her studies of Yoruba poetry and the work of Paul Celan [though what a depressing end!].

It would be fun to hear McHugh lecture.