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Tag Archives: Tony Hoagland
From Tony Hoagland’s new book
There is nothing to say about this poem–just buy the book. The Age of Iron When I see an ironing board folded in the closet of a motel room, and the iron resting like a sledgehammer on the shelf above, … Continue reading
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Tagged Hoagland, Recent Changes in the Vernacular, The Age of Iron, Tony Hoagland
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Bumpy
One of the pleasures and also the problems of travel to another country is that each simple transaction is slightly mystifying: the language, the currency, the customs. Your habits are left at home with the clothes in your closet, and … Continue reading
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Tagged A little consideration, blindness, borges, jorge luis borges, on my blindness, Tony Hoagland
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Another by Tony Hoagland
Reading though poems this morning, trying to find one to post, I couldn’t resist this one. He’s got the jargon so perfectly. I especially like his description of “holding the fear inside/like a tipsy glass of water”: And The Men want … Continue reading
A hard rain
A friend asked me to show her a poem by Tony Hoagland that “hit it out of the park.” I hope this qualifies: Hard Rain After I heard It’s a Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall played softly by an accordion quartet … Continue reading
Befriending Frankenstein
I have been reading Tony Hoagland’s newest book of essays, Twenty Poems that Could Save America (published by Graywolf Press, a wonderful imprint). In his first essay, “Je Suis ein Americano: the Genius of American Diction,” he talks about the current direction … Continue reading
Luckily for me
and my resolution to be more timely with Poetry Monday, a wonderful chapbook, “Little Oceans” by Tony Hoagland, arrived in the mail today. I’ve posted his poems before, and some of these I’d read before, but I was so glad … Continue reading
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Tagged Gritney Spears, Hoagland, Hollyridge Press, Little Oceans, Poor Britney SPears, Tony Hoagland
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Poetry Monday
Tony Hoagland wrote an article about teaching poetry in school, or rather about the need to change how we teach poetry in school, called Twenty Little Poems That Could Save America. His idea is that poetry as a living part … Continue reading
Ekphrastics, take two
In the comments to yesterday’s post on ekphrastic poetry, a reader asked if I’d ever written a poem about a poem. Self-referential creatures that we are, poets often write about poems, and I’m no exception. So here in order, are … Continue reading