Description
"Hoagland's verse is consistently, and crucially, bloodied by a sense of menace and by straight talk." --The New York Times
My heroes are the ones who don't say much.They don't hug people they just met.
They don't play louder when confused.
They use plain language even when they listen. Wisdom doesn't come to every Californian.
Chances are I too
will die with difficulty in the dark. If you want to see a lost civilizaton,
why not look in the mirror?
If you want to talk about love, why not begin
with those marigolds you forgot to water? --from "Real Estate" Tony Hoagland's poems interrogate human nature and contemporary culture with an intimate and wild urgency, located somewhere between outrage, stand-up comedy, and grief. His new poems are no less observant of the human and the worldly, no less skeptical, and no less amusing, but they have drifted toward the greater depths of open emotion. Over six collections, Hoagland's poetry has gotten bigger, more tender, and more encompassing. The poems in Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God turn his clear-eyed vision toward the hidden spaces--and spaciousness--in the human predicament.
Author: Tony Hoagland
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 06/05/2018
Pages: 88
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9781555978075
ISBN10: 155597807X
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
About the Author
Tony Hoagland is the author of five previous poetry collections, including Application for Release from the Dream and What Narcissism Means to Me, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.