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More copies of this ISBNUnincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynastyby Tony Hoagland
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The new poetry collection by Tony Hoagland, the award-winning author of What Narcissism Means To Me and Donkey Gospel In Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty, Tony Hoagland is deep inside a republic that no longer offers reliable signage, in which comfort and suffering are intimately entwined, and whose citizens gasp for oxygen without knowing why. With Hoagland's trademark humor and social commentary, these poems are exhilarating for their fierce moral curiosity, their desire to name the truth, and their celebration of the resilience of human nature. Review:"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 jokes out of the mess. 'After I heard Its a Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall/ played softly by an accordion quartet/ through the ceiling speakers at the Springsdale Shopping Mall, / I understood there's nothing/ we cant pluck the stinger from,' opens "Hard Rain." Near the end of the same poem, Hoagland admits, 'I used to think I was not part of this, / that I could mind my own business and get along, // but that was just another song.' Hoagland has much in common with the popular Billy Collins — a sharp, if deadpan, wit; accessible, almost prosey lines; a penchant for self-consciously drawing the reader's attention to the artifice of the poem — but with a more musically attuned ear and a darker outlook: 'I was driving home that afternoon/ in some dilated condition of sensitivity/ of the kind known only to certain poets/ and more or less everybody else.' At his best, Hoagland is capable of showing us how truly marvelous our marvelous punishment can be.(Feb.)" Publishers Weekly Copyright 2010 Reed Business Information. Review:"I too am made of joists and stanchions, of plasterboard and temperamental steel, mortgage payments and severed index fingers, ex-girlfriends and secret Kool-Aid-flavored dawns." from “Demolition” “It's hard to imagine any aspect of contemporary American life that couldn't 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 Review:"Hoagland has fun in these poems but always in service to a smart and insightful notion....These poems are meant to shake up an already shaken world. But then, 'this is no/ ordinary snowglobe.'" Library Journal (Starred Review) Review:"Hoagland’s poems... are so fully alive to the rich, dark depths of their grumpiness that they constantly threaten, against their author’s gimlet-eyed better judgment, to become beautiful." New York Times Book Review Synopsis:The new poetry collection by the award-winning author of What Narcissism Means to Me. With Hoagland's trademark humor and social commentary, these poems are exhilarating for their fierce moral curiosity and their celebration of the resilience of human nature. About the AuthorTony Hoagland is the author of three poetry collections, including What Narcissism Means to Me, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Donkey Gospel, winner of the James Laughlin Award. He teaches at the University of Houston. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!Average customer rating based on 1 comment:
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