Tony Hoagland captures the recognizably American landscape of a man of his generation: sex, friendship, rock and roll, cars, high optimism, and disillusion. With what Robert Pinsky has called the saving vulgarity of American poetry, Hoagland's small biographies of destruction reveal that defeat is a natural prelude to grace and loss a kind of threshold to freedom.
Tony Hoagland captures the recognizably American landscape of a man of his generation: sex, friendship, rock and roll, cars, high optimism, and disill...
In LITTLE OCEANS we enter the wild range of Tony Hoagland's universe as he charts the manners and morals of our contemporary world with his incisive eye and lyric heart.
In LITTLE OCEANS we enter the wild range of Tony Hoagland's universe as he charts the manners and morals of our contemporary world with his incisive e...
Tony Hoagland's zany poems poke & provoke at the same time as they entertain & delight. He is American poetry's hilarious 'high priest of irony', a wisecracker & a risktaker whose humour, self-scathing & tenderness are all fuelled by an aggressive moral intelligence. He pushes the poem not just to its limits but over the edge.
Tony Hoagland's zany poems poke & provoke at the same time as they entertain & delight. He is American poetry's hilarious 'high priest of irony', a wi...
