(c) bill hayward 2008
Dear Stacey and David: This is from The Real West Marginal Way, "Dialogue with Richard Hugo":
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Well I think one thing was that Montana, of course, is vast, and there are a lot of poems lying around just to be picked up, and most of my Montana poems the last few years have come from east of the Divide….That’s a funny way for a poet to think about it, but I do think of the world as a kind of hunting ground for poems and that I can find them lying around here and there. Hopefully always inside myself ultimately. But I am a landscape poet, I guess. I respond pretty much to the place where I live.
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