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Tony Hoagland
TONY HOAGLAND is the author of three poetry collections, including What Narcissism Means to Me, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Donkey Gospel, winner of the James Laughlin Award. He teaches at the University of Houston. show more

TONY HOAGLAND is the author of three poetry collections, including What Narcissism Means to Me, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Donkey Gospel, winner of the James Laughlin Award. He teaches at the University of Houston.
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Birth date: November 19, 1953
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Soulclaphands
Soulclaphands rated it 13 years ago
Excerpt from "The Word:"Down near the bottomof the crossed-out listof things you have to do today,between "green thread"and "broccoli," you findthat you have penciled "sunlight."From "Emigration," a poem about illness and departure: Try being sick for a yearthen having that year turn into two,until ...
learn by going
learn by going rated it 13 years ago
The third section pushed this to four stars for me. I'm still smiling from the beauty of the last poem, "Voyage." Hoagland's always written of masculinity--humorously and honestly, although in some cases I felt like writing something in response along the lines of "Chicks feel this, too"--loneliness...
the terror of whatever
the terror of whatever rated it 15 years ago
I liked Part III the most, especially:Field GuideThe Perfect MomentSentimental EducationAll of which I really liked. I always cringe a little bit when his topic is race. Maybe that's by design, but I'm always wary of white guys pointing out anything about anything.
the terror of whatever
the terror of whatever rated it 15 years ago
Really enjoyable. There are a couple of poems where one line is SO GOOD it makes you wish it didn't outshine the rest of the poem, but I'm not going to fault a guy for writing awesome lines. Favorites were:Social Life (whereas I prefer the feeling of going away, going away))A Color of the Sky (What ...
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