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Requesting--and instantly receiving--a Glock .45, a Smith and Wesson .45 and a Smith and Wesson 9 millimeter made us feel like we had somehow entered Hughes brothers movie. Fluorescent pink goggles and industrial strength ear-muffs punctured our delusions of gangsta grandeur, however.
Wooroloo would be an impressive debut coming from any new poet, but the book will be read by many out of plain curiosity: In what manner does a child of those parents write? And although Hughes denies being consciously influenced by the work of her mother and father, traces from...
She began writing poems in her childhood but decided, once she understood her parents' renown, to keep them private "for the obvious reason that comparisons would be made." Instead, after a period of adolescent turmoil--anorexia, an impulsive and brief marriage to a biker at age 19--Hughes became a...
Such poems emit a screechiness that Plath's, at their most powerful, avoided. Hughes is more successful when she turns her attention, as her father has done so brilliantly, to the natural world. Here is a fox: "Half grown/ His small feet black as matchheads." Here is a bush fire...
Now happily married to a fellow painter, the Hungarian-born Laszlo Lukacs, Hughes has moved from her property in Wooroloo--the bush fires grew too harrowing--and lives full-time in London. She is pleased to have conquered her own reluctance to appear in print as a poet, despite all...