Richard Hugo

Making Certain It Goes On

The Collected Poems of Richard Hugo

With a new introduction by William Kittredge

The definitive collection of a major American poet’s work.

Richard Hugo was, in James Wright’s words, “a great poet, true to our difficult life.” Making Certain It Goes On brings together, as Hugo wished, the poems published in book form during his lifetime, together with the new poems he wrote in his last years.

Richard Hugo received the Theodore Roethke Memorial Prize and was twice nominated for the National Book Award. He died in 1982.