Journal 3: Triggering Town From Paul Winters

Coming in for a landing in the past two chapters was very solemn as the journey with Hugo was coming to and end and there is nothing like reading a book for the first time through and it is all new. Even though he is gone now, we are still getting to know him and that is what I love about books the fruit of them lives on.

The ending just rings on, and I have read it over and over. I love the last lines of books, because I know they have been so thought out and so I have decided to quote it.
     
        "Or if we never did it ourselves, that someone, derelict or poet, did it for us once in some euphonic way our inadequate capacity for love did not deny our hearing" Page 109.


Reading it can still give me the chills as we realize we are apart of something much bigger than ourselves and it becomes our responsibility to not only be the voice of our race and what is happening, but give a voice and a channel to those that don't even know they have a voice.






https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/richard-hugo


Something I wanted to know about Hugo is when he really started getting into his craft of poetry, and I found that he was 37 when he published his first book of poems after being in creative writing a Creative writing major at Washington state and going on to work for Boeing.

It was interesting to find that he was still open to his calling and he finally honed in on it. He also died when he was 58, when he was ripe.





Something I really took away from this book is the way Hugo would talk to us in his writing, it took me from not looking at myself at a poet at all to realizing it is a great technique to connect to the unseen emotions and can be done in a very beautiful way. It is something that will always stick with me because just as Hugo did we have to be open to our calling, and no matter what that may be poetry can be used to get out of us what our way of thinking may not be able to express.