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Title: Donkey Gospel : Poems by Tony Hoagland ISBN: 1-55597-268-3 Publisher: Graywolf Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.56 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: He's a genius.
Comment: This is the kind of poetry book you'll refer to over and over again. I laugh and cry on every page. No other poet can turn a line into a maneuvering poem of life and all its quirks like Hoagland can. This is a must read for any poet and any body.
Rating: 5
Summary: These are great poems
Comment: The previous review doesn't make any sense to me. I too saw Hoagland read in Pittsburgh, have seen him read a couple of times actually, and I have always been impressed by the great energy, sensitivity, and the sheet amount of and depth of references he brings into each poem. His poems make me glad to be alive, to be honest. I would guess that the listener who thinks Hoagland has "no ear" might, as a wise man once said, look to the mote in his own perceptions. Maybe he or she expected something different from poetry. Hoagland's poems are not in the high lyrical mode of, say, Edna St. Vincent Millay, but that's not what they're about, what they're interested in. They are about conversation, argument, working out of ideas and sensibilities. Having said that, they are also musical--just not at the expense of meaningfulness. And, as for Hoagland having too high a regard for himself, one only has to actually pay attention to the actual poems to see that they are in fact full of humility and a deep (wonderful, brilliant, exuberant, humane) sensitivity.
Rating: 1
Summary: ugh
Comment: The banality, tunelessness, and all-around god-awfulness of Tony Hoagland's poetry is almost heart-breaking, but the high self-regard with which they are written relieves the reader of any compassion for the writer. I heard him read in Pittsburgh, and he was little more than a bundle of affectations. The poems themselves are merely strings of quips and pedestrian observations and sophomoric editorializings. He has no eye and no ear. Any discerning reader will feel cheapened after spending time with these poems.
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Title: What Narcissism Means to Me : Poems by Tony Hoagland ISBN: 1555973868 Publisher: Graywolf Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Sweet Ruin (Brittingham Prize in Poetry) by Tony Hoagland ISBN: 0299135845 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Skid (Pitt Poetry Series (Paper)) by Dean Young ISBN: 0822957809 Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems by Kim Addonizio ISBN: 0393057267 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Rose by Li-Young Lee ISBN: 0918526531 Publisher: Boa Editions, Ltd. Pub. Date: March, 1993 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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