Sugar Factory

5/5 ( ratings)

“Sugar Factory is absolutely gorgeous lyric fire.” – Ilya Kaminsky

“These poems make me so glad. I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a charming use of the exclamation point. And there is such a vastness to these little poems — the way Joanne Kyger or Larry Eigner were able to write like brushstrokes — Emily Wallis Hughes lives fully, sensually in the natural world, in the city, and in a family’s past. You will feel so at home in these poems; they are a tonic.” – Matthew Rohrer

“Like Whitman’s “Song of Myself,” Hughes’s Sugar Factory is a laud for the land, a deep song of praise for the ecstasy in the ordinary. Riding the train, peeling fruit, contemplating streaks of color—here we find everyday encounters opening doorways to memory, both intimate and ancestral. The result is a quietly fierce collection of poems that spans coasts and continents as it boldly “carries the voices of the living/and the dead.”’ – Patricia Killelea

Emily Wallis Hughes’s first collection of poems, Sugar Factory, including a series of twelve new acrylic paintings by Sarah Riggs in collaboration with Emily’s poetry, and a co-written essay in two colors by the poet and artist about their collaboration, was published in January 2019 by legendary small press Spuyten Duyvil. Sugar Factory was a finalist for both the Fence Modern Poets Series Prize and the Tupelo Press Dorset Prize.