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Unincorporated persons in the Late Honda Dynasty
Tony Hoagland
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Description for Unincorporated persons in the Late Honda Dynasty
Paperback. Tony Hoagland is one of America's leading poets. His zany, highly entertaining and acerbic poems have won him many readers in America and Britain. "Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty" is his first new collection since his first UK book of poems, "What Narcissism Means to Me: Selected Poems", published by Bloodaxe in 2005. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 8. Weight in Grams: 192.
Tony Hoagland's zany poems poke and provoke at the same time as they entertain and delight. He is American poetry's 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 was his first new collection after 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 ... Read more
Tony Hoagland's zany poems poke and provoke at the same time as they entertain and delight. He is American poetry's 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 was his first new collection after 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852248727
SKU
V9781852248727
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99-25
About Tony Hoagland
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. ... Read more
Reviews for Unincorporated persons in the Late Honda Dynasty
"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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more