Richard Hugo's "Letter to Sirn...

Richard Hugo's "Letter to Sirnic from Boulder" was included with three other metrical compositions in the "Talking American Poetry" issue of Summer 1975 It was later included with similar metrical compositions in his collection, 31 alphabetic characters and 13 Dreams (1977). These metrical compositions were written in a period when he was suffering from loneliness and alcoholism following the failure of his first marriage; the alphabetic characters were an attempt to reach gone out from that loneliness. Hugo serv in the army air corps during World War II.

Dear Charles: And to such a degree we meet once in San Francisco and I learn I bombed you drawn out ...