Tony Hoagland, Author . Graywolf $14 (78p) ISBN 978-1-55597-386-5
"How did I come to believe in a government called Tony Hoagland?/ with an economy based on flattery and self-protection?" How indeed. In Hoagland's third collection, as in the previous two, his speaker devotes considerable energy to...
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Tony Hoagland, Author . Graywolf $15 (90p) ISBN 978-1-55597-549-4
Hoagland’s fourth collection finds him cynically observing America during and after the Bush presidency. The speaker of these poems is deeply disheartened by his country and his own complacence, though far from unable to churn up good-natured...
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Tony Hoagland, Author Graywolf Press $15 (201p) ISBN 978-1-55597-455-8
Hoagland's third book of poetry, the flirtatiously-titled What Narcissism Means to Me (2005), established him as one of the smarter, and funnier, poets of his generation, well balanced between absurdity and confession; those strengths are on show in
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Tony Hoagland. Graywolf (FSG, dist.), $16 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-1-55597-718-4
In his fifth poetry collection, Hoagland (Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty) lives up to his reputation for humor, though it’s the incisive, self-lacerating, and sad variety. Unfolding like disturbing conversations, Hoagland’s lines...
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Tony Hoagland. Graywolf, $16 trade paper (88p) ISBN 978-1-55597-807-5
In this sixth collection, Hoagland (Application for Release from the Dream) writes of America as though writing to an old friend, with an irritability that is both charming and deeply satisfying: “We have// everything we need,/ don’t know what the/...
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Martin Shaw and Tony Hoagland. Graywolf, $16 trade paper (152p) ISBN 978-1-64445-027-7
In the foreword to this lyrical collection of stories in verse and poems, Shaw, a mythologist and storyteller, recalls an afternoon spent with Hoagland (who died in late 2018) looking out at the Irish Sea. There, the joint project, which he remarks...
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