Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty by Tony Hoagland (English) Pape

Description: Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty by Tony Hoagland Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description Tony Hoaglands zany poems poke and provoke at the same time as they entertain and delight. He is American poetrys 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. Publisher Description Poetry Book Society Recommendation Tony Hoaglands zany poems poke and provoke at the same time as they entertain and delight. He is American poetrys 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. Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty is his first new collection since What Narcissism Means to Me: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2005). The poems and title try to make sense of the situation of the individual in our time, and in America in particular Hoaglands obsessive main subject. They worry over how to preserve a sense of self and values, connectedness and cohesiveness, in an era of market-driven culture, dazzling but toxic entertainment, and degraded and degrading idiocies cultivated by mass culture. He belongs to that wagon-circle of American poets who believe in a "common reader" Hoagland is a poet of a ragged, half-satirical, half-lyrical intensity. If Billy Collins is Updike, Hoagland is Salinger, or perhaps Holden Caulfield making us think we know the ground we are on, then showing us that we dont For me, he not only pulls the rug from under my feet when it comes to the moral complacencies and platitudes that I dont notice I live by, he does the same with my given poetic certainties Henry Shukman, Poetry London Hilarious, searing poems that break your heart so fast you hardly notice youre standing knee deep in a pool of implications. They are of this moment, right now the present that were already homesick for Marie Howe Tony Hoaglands high zaniness always makes us laugh, but his real substance issues from the personal, aesthetic and moral risks he invokes in poem after poem What Narcissism Means to Me shows us our age and how great poetry is still possible Rodney Jones A Late Night Show of poetry hosted by a high priest of irony (check out the title) These poems are very funny, but they are also sad, sharp-edged and ambitious confiding, consistently irreverent and, in a way, comforting Carol Muske-Dukes, Los Angeles Times Hoaglands central subject is the self, specifically, a prickly, grandiose American masculine poetic self, or to be more specific still, what the author ruefully labels in one poem "a government called Tony Hoagland" there is something refreshing about his willingness to expose his crummier impulses Emily Nussbaum, New York Times Its hard to imagine any aspect of contemporary American life that couldnt make its way into the writing of Tony Hoagland or a word in common or formal usage he would shy away from. He is a poet of risk: he risks wild laughter in poems that are totally heartfelt, poems you want to read out loud to anyone who needs to know the score and even more so to those who think they know the score. The framework of his writing is immense, almost as large as the tarnished nation he wandered into under the star of poetry Jackson Poetry Prize judges citation USA: Graywolf Press Author Biography Tony Hoagland (1953-2018) was born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. His father was an Army doctor, and Hoagland grew up on various military bases throughout the South. He taught at the University of Houston and in the low residency MFA program at Warren Wilson College. He lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and was married to the writer Kathleen Lee. His first collection, Sweet Ruin (1992), won the Brittingham Prize in Poetry. His second, Donkey Gospel (1998), won the James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets. The third, What Narcissism Means to Me (2003), was shortlisted for a National Book Circle Critics Award. His first UK book of poems, What Narcissism Means to Me: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2005) drew upon these three collections, and was followed by Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty (2010) and Application for Release from the Dream, published by Graywolf Press in the US in 2015 and by Bloodaxe in Britain in 2016. is final two collections, written over the same period, were a small collection, Recent Changes in the Vernacular (Tres Chicas Press, 2017), and Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God (Graywolf Press, 2018). The Bloodaxe UK edition of Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God (2019) also includes some poems from Recent Changes in the Vernacular. He also published Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft (Graywolf Press, USA, 2006) and Twenty Poems That Could Save America and Other Essays (Graywolf Press, USA, 2014). He was given a number of literary honours, including the Jackson Poetry Prize, awarded by Poets & Writers magazine; the Mark Twain Award, given by the Poetry Foundation; and the O.B. Hardison Jr. Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Details ISBN 1852248726 ISBN-13 9781852248727 Title Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty Author Tony Hoagland Format Paperback Year 2010 Pages 96 Publisher Bloodaxe Books Ltd GE_Item_ID:145093333; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. 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