So, yesterday was the official kick-off of the Keep Portland Weird festival here in Paris, which meant that I had a reading/screening in the...
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I enjoyed this collection so much I bought 5 more copies to give to my siblings and friends .
I appreciate so many poets’ styles and attitudes and am thrilled when I have a book of poems where one or three poems thrill me, turn me on, energize me, elicit empathetic feelings of wonder, grief , compassion ,regret or pain. There was not a poem I didn’t enjoy in this collection. I have never experienced that before.
With this book, I recognize Tony Hoagland’s writing as the epitome of what poets are driven to do- connect , reveal , inspire and delight .
As a catholic I learned the “age of reason”, being able to tell right from wrong, was assumed to be at the age of 7 and therefore could not receive holy communion until that age. But for me I am just coming into the age of reason and I definitely feel a communion with this writer’s collection. I know other baby boomers will understand , when I say he is “right-on, far-out, sharp ,and he is cool man, really cool .”
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Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty by Tony Hoagland
peggy shannon, May 1, 2010
I enjoyed this collection so much I bought 5 more copies to give to my siblings and friends .
I appreciate so many poets’ styles and attitudes and am thrilled when I have a book of poems where one or three poems thrill me, turn me on, energize me, elicit empathetic feelings of wonder, grief , compassion ,regret or pain. There was not a poem I didn’t enjoy in this collection. I have never experienced that before.
With this book, I recognize Tony Hoagland’s writing as the epitome of what poets are driven to do- connect , reveal , inspire and delight .
As a catholic I learned the “age of reason”, being able to tell right from wrong, was assumed to be at the age of 7 and therefore could not receive holy communion until that age. But for me I am just coming into the age of reason and I definitely feel a communion with this writer’s collection. I know other baby boomers will understand , when I say he is “right-on, far-out, sharp ,and he is cool man, really cool .”