Download or read book Making Certain It Goes On: The Collected Poems of Richard Hugo written by Richard Hugo and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1991-07-17 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Hugo, who died suddenly in 1982, 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 moving and courageous new poems he wrote in his last years. This, then, is the definitive collection of a major American poet's enduring works.