The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Hogan
- First Published: 1973
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, Native Americans or American Indians, Fishes
The Poem
“The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir” refers to an actual site about thirty-five miles north of Missoula, where Richard Hugo taught at the University of Montana for the last eighteen years of his life. The poem, however, is not based on an actual drowning.
The fifty-six lines of the poem are divided into seven eight-line stanzas. The first-person speaker begins with a startlingly blunt line, mostly in monosyllables, in which he asserts that his hands, which once moved across the woman’s body as the hands of a lover, have been replaced by the green algae...
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