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America's Tony Hoagland (1953-2018) was known for provocative poems which interrogate human nature and contemporary culture with an intimate and wild urgency. His final collection Turn Up the Ocean examines with an unflinching eye and mordant humour the reality of living and dying in a time and culture that conspire to erase our inner lives.

Over the course of his celebrated career, Tony Hoagland ventured fearlessly into the unlit alleys of emotion and experience. The poems in Turn Up the Ocean examine with an unflinching eye and mordant humor the reality of living and dying in a time and culture that conspire to erase our inner lives. Hoagland's signature wit and unparalleled observations take in long-standing injustices, the atrocities of American empire and consumerism, and our...

Award-winning poet James Hoagland's work sparkles with effervescence, a jujitsu cleverness--a "wise-guy" aesthetic. Through unexpected subjects ranging from the boy who speaks only in "Kung Fu" dialogue, to a man visiting a lesbian bar, Hoagland gives us a sense of finally being able to say the truth about the credentials of manhood.

In this accessible and distilled craft guide, acclaimed poet Tony Hoagland approaches poetry through the frame of poetic voice, that mysterious connective element that binds the speaker and reader together. A poem strong in the dimension of voice is an animate thing of shifting balances, tones and temperatures, by turns confiding, vulgar, bossy or cunning-but above all, alive. The twelve short chapters of The Art of Voice explore ways to creat...

Collects sixteen essays by late Tony Hoagland. Gathered by Hoagland himself into a volume for the Poets on Poetry series, these pieces grapple with an expansive range of poetic and cultural concerns - and the surprising and necessary knowledge to be found where they cross paths.

America's Tony Hoagland is known for his provocative poetry which interrogates human nature and contemporary culture with an intimate and wild urgency, combining outrage, stand-up comedy and grief. His late poems are no less sceptical and no less amusing, but they drifted towards the greater depths of open emotion.

In this accessible and distilled craft guide, acclaimed poet Tony Hoagland approaches poetry through the frame of poetic voice, that mysterious connective element that binds the speaker and reader together. A poem strong in the dimension of voice is an animate thing of shifting balances, tones, and temperatures, by turns confiding, vulgar, bossy, or cunning-but above all, alive. The twelve short chapters of The Art of Voice explore ways to cre...

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Hoagland's verse is consistently, and crucially, bloodied by a sense of menace and by straight talk." -The New York TimesMy 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 toowill die with difficulty in the dark.If you want to see a lost civilizaton, why not look in the mirror?If y...

Tony Hoagland's zany poems poke and provoke at the same time as they entertain and delight. He is American poetry's hilarious 'high priest of irony', a wisecracker and a risktaker whose disarming humour, self-scathing and tenderness are all fuelled by an aggressive moral intelligence. He pushes the poem not just to its limits but over the edge.

A fearless, wide-ranging book on the state of poetry and American literary culture by Tony Hoagland, the author of What Narcissism Means to MeLive American poetry is absent from our public schools. The teaching of poetry languishes, and that region of youthful neurological terrain capable of being ignited only by poetry is largely dark, unpopulated, and silent, like a classroom whose shades are drawn. This is more than a shame, for poetry is o...

New poetry from award-winning poet Tony Hoagland.

Once more the anthropologist of our American scene brings us his reports from the present. With a ruthless gaze, Tony Hoagland attends to all the details of modern frailty and human joy. "What is wrong with you?" he asks of "His Majesty Mr.-Boombox-In-My-Jeep" driving the beach road at 2 AM. What is wrong with all of us? these poems want to know and set off finding out. Don't Tell Anyone is a chronicle of life, love, marriage, sex and shopping...

The eagerly awaited, brilliant, and engaging new poems by Tony Hoagland, author of What Narcissism Means to Me The parade for the slain police officergoes past the bakery and the smell of fresh breadmakes the mourners salivate against their will. -from "Note to Reality"Are we corrupt or innocent, fragmented or whole? Are responsibility and freedom irreconcilable? Do we value memory or succumb to our forgetfulness? Application for Release from ...

Fifth collection by leading American poet

The anticipated first collection of essays by celebrated poet Tony Hoagland, author of "What Narcissism Means to Me, " explores metaphor, tone, rhetorical and compositional strategies with the vigorous, conversational style less of the scholar than of the serious enthusiast and practitioner.

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.

Tony Hoagland's zany poems poke and provoke at the same time as they entertain and delight. He is American poetry's hilarious 'high priest of irony', a wisecracker and a risktaker whose disarming humour, self-scathing and tenderness are all fuelled by an aggressive moral intelligence. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

The new poetry collection by the award-winning author of "What Narcissim Means to Me." With Hoagland's trademark humor and social commentary, these poems are exhilarating for their fierce moral curiosity and their celebration of the resilience of human nature.

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.