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Soon After Rain
James Hoggard
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Description for Soon After Rain
Paperback. James Hoggard's new collection of poems is an elegant, highly energetic volume that takes its readers through a wealth of settings, times, and forms. As versatile a poet as there is, Hoggard time and again turns his attention to forms like pantoum and ghazals that heighten the readers' responses to the stories he tells in verse. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 177.
James Hoggard's new collection of poems is an elegant, highly energetic volume that takes its readers through a wealth of settings, times, and forms. As versatile a poet as there is, Hoggard time and again turns his attention to forms like pantoum and ghazals that heighten the readers' responses to the stories he tells in verse.
In fact, one of the signal pieces in the volume shows Hoggard unearthing an old story about Odysseus' trying through a wealth of trickery to get out of going to the Trojan War. What the tale adds up to, however, is a deeply ... Read more
James Hoggard's new collection of poems is an elegant, highly energetic volume that takes its readers through a wealth of settings, times, and forms. As versatile a poet as there is, Hoggard time and again turns his attention to forms like pantoum and ghazals that heighten the readers' responses to the stories he tells in verse.
In fact, one of the signal pieces in the volume shows Hoggard unearthing an old story about Odysseus' trying through a wealth of trickery to get out of going to the Trojan War. What the tale adds up to, however, is a deeply ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Wings Press United States
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
San Antonio, TX, United States
ISBN
9781609404284
SKU
V9781609404284
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About James Hoggard
James Hoggard is a translator, a playwright, a novelist, an essayist, and a poet whose work has appeared in numerous publications, including Arts & Letters, Harvard Review, and Words Without Borders. He is the recipient of the Lon Tinkle Award for Excellence Sustained Throughout a Career, a poet laureate of Texas, and the former president of the Texas Institute of ... Read more
Reviews for Soon After Rain
If there is a better book of poetry based on weather—as subject, theme, motif—literal, symbolic, or metaphorical, I certainly haven't seen it. . . . If you are interested in beautifully crafted, thoughtful, and memorable poems displaying a breadth and depth of reading, travel, experience, acute observation, and wise rendition, Soon After Rain may well be exactly what you're looking ... Read more