Books : Hard Rain (The Hollyridge Press Chapbook Series)
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by: Tony Hoagland
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780977229826
ISBN: 0977229823
Label: Hollyridge Press
Manufacturer: Hollyridge Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 48
Publication Date: October 20, 2005
Publisher: Hollyridge Press
Sales Rank: 159798
Studio: Hollyridge Press
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New poetry from award-winning poet Tony Hoagland.
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Rating:  - poetry that challenges the essences of poetry
Tony Hoagland is a funny, smart and appropriately bitter man. I am not speaking of Tony Hoagland the person here, but the poet. He is funny in a poem like "Romantic Moment," when a speaker, on a second date and after a movie that has some of his more primal instincts going, has to censure his fantastical mating rituals in the face of ettiquette, and Tony Hoagland is smart in a poem like "Cement Truck" or "Allegory of the Temp Agency," when he examines the stuff of poetry itself through the need ... Read More
Rating: - Toward 21st Century Writing
I very much enjoyed this book and read it through breezily in two sittings, with a smile on my face, chuckling inside, now looking forward to reading it through again.
"Allegory of a Temp Agency," "Dialectical Materialism," "Hard Rain," and "Voyage" (which can be found at www.Poems.com)are among my favorites. I think Hoagland has written a book here that swallows and then displays our confused, polyglot, whirligig times. Plus, he leaves room for another poet to take some of the direction ... Read More
Rating:  - The cover is the review
I first came to Hoagland's poetry through his second book, Donkey Gospel. Very good stuff, I thought. I'll try some more. Sweet Ruin, Hoagland's first, may have been even better. I did not hesitate a year later to advance order number three, What Narcissism Means to Me. The opening poems are among his best, but then there seemed a drop off. The rest of the book wasn't that bad, wasn't that good, so I hesitated when Hard Rain said Buy me! Buy me! But I relented. I figured Hoagland had given me two ... Read More
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