Poetry. "Through the world of Richard Hague blow hard winds of place and change. The result is a sacred and seductive music"—David Citino. "Roots nudge between / stones and I / clinch them / like nails / with the angry / hammer of loss"—from "A Wrench My Grandfather Left."

Author City: Cincinnatti, OH USA

Richard Hague, award winning poet, essayist, and fiction writer, was born and raised in Steubenville, Ohio, and has lived alone during summers in a trailer in rural Monroe County, Ohio. He has thus experienced two distinct settings of Appalachian life—polluted mill town and isolated country ridge. His stories in LEARNING HOW (Bottom Dog Press, 2011) arise from the cultural, economic, and political constructs he encountered there. Hague's other books include the poetry collections Public Hearings (WordTech Communications, 2009) and ALIVE IN HARD COUNTRY (Bottom Dog Press, 2003), and the National Book Award nominated prose collection MILLTOWN NATURAL: ESSAYS AND STORIES FROM A LIFE (Bottom Dog Press, 1997).