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In Time, and Out: Women's Poetry and Literary History

Heather McHugh’s poem “Round Time” raises a question about poetry as well as memory. Remembering “in time” ought to be possible, indeed the only way to remember at all. However, it is also the problem: “I look / too straight.” The time of history, memory, life itself, is a “straight” time which cannot reclaim the beloved object: “my intended and my ex,” the I’s lost “she.” Between “I” and “she,” those time-related pronouns, something intervenes. All the historian’s tactics are used: in “shots and tones and letters she / was caught, recorded, dated.” However, in spite of this evidence of records and dates, “she” only becomes,