Reviews for The La Plata Cantata: Poems

The average rating for The La Plata Cantata: Poems based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-05-10 00:00:00 David Sterling Like the sundail in the first poem, Mox Nox, McHugh deals in the liminal spaces between time and language. McHugh seems to be searching in this space for ways to deal with loss but often adds levity through wordplay. Some of the hyperbole veers close to light verse, but McHugh never stays there. A strong collection.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-10-20 00:00:00 Edward Kelly I'm never quite certain how well a question like "where is where?" is going to work. It's difficult because it can so easily become sloppy, or, worse, lazy poetry. In this book, the question comes from an occasion of significant loss. And though the questions don't seem posed in as desperate a manner as Bang's Elegy, it does come at a point when the speaker searches for the relevance of images that might not be best attached to this loss, but should find a place in her own life.