Heather McHugh: The Garden Path: Poems by Gaspara Stampa and Su Tung P’o (July 2011)
$5.00
In this lecture, Heather McHugh examines the work of two largely unknown poets, Gaspara Stampa and Su Tung P’o. McHugh conducts close readings of a range of poems by both writers and considers the ghost meanings, or multiple meanings, of the words in the poems; she suggests that this multiplicity allows the poems to work like “garden paths,” taking readers in unexpected directions.