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Winner of the 1997 James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets

In his second collection of poems, Hoagland's generous effervescence and a jujitsu cleverness sparkle through line after line confronting negotiation and compromise, gender and culture, sex and rock music, sons and lovers, truth and beauty, and so forth. From the boy who speaks only in "Kung Fu" dialogue to the guy who visits a lesbian bar and sees his mother, this often funny and always thoughtful book of poems offers fresh, surprisingly frank meditations on the credentials for contemporary manhood.

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Winner of the 1997 James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets

In his second collection of poems, Hoagland's generous effervescence and a jujitsu cleverness sparkle through line after line confronting negotiation and compromise, gender and culture, sex and rock music, sons and lovers, truth and beauty, and so forth. From the boy who speaks only in "Kung Fu" dialogue to the guy who visits a lesbian bar and sees his mother, this often funny and always thoughtful book of poems offers fresh, surprisingly frank meditations on the credentials for contemporary manhood.

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...[I]f you haven't read too much contemporary confessional verse, this is a good place to start.
Library Journal
Hoagland's second book (after Sweet Ruin, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1992) is nothing if not imaginative. Invigorated by "fine distress," these graceful, perceptive poems gaze without blinking at what we hide from each other and ourselves when "head and heart/ are in different time zones." Concerned by broken bonds of love and "climaxes of suffering" in a "dying, burning world," he's also angry, at times startlingly, at "dividedness" of identity, which makes it impossible to remain connected in a "hated prison" of selfhood. With refreshing candor (one poem defends D.H. Lawrence, "who opened up the world"), Hoagland reveals what happens when giving and "tenderness" are blocked by a "mass of delusions" and "strange appetites." Acceptance of "joy and suffering made one at last" transforms what appear to be extravagant elegies into genuine empathy for "all our yearnings, all our fears." This award-winning collection illuminates conflicts between individual desire for self-actualization and the "dark and soaring fact" of experience. To be alive, for Hoagland, "hurts exquisitely." For larger poetry collections.Frank Allen, Northhampton Community Coll., Tannersville, PA

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781555972684
  • Publisher: Graywolf Press
  • Publication date: 2/1/1998
  • Pages: 80
  • Sales rank: 450,466
  • Lexile: 1570L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.34 (d)

Meet the Author

Tony Hoagland's first book, Sweet Ruin, was awarded the Brittingham Prize in Poetry and the Zacharis Award from Ploughshares at Emerson College. A member of the writing faculty at the University of Pittsburg, Hoagland has also received grants from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation.

Table of Contents

Jet 3
Mistaken Identity 4
Reading Moby-Dick at 30,000 Feet 6
Self-Improvement 8
Dickhead 10
Honda Pavarotti 12
Game 14
Medicine 16
Beauty 18
Candlelight 20
Brave World 22
Lucky 24
Benevolence 26
Auden 27
Hearings 29
Lawrence 31
Fred Had Watched a Lot of Kung Fu Episodes 33
Here in Berkeley 35
Muy Macho 37
Lie Down with a Man 40
The Replacement 41
Research 43
Why We Went and What We Found 45
Just Spring 47
Grammar 49
From This Height 50
Mission 52
Cry Me a River 53
Memory As a Hearing Aid 56
Arrows 58
Embarrassment 60
The Confessional Mode 61
Adam and Eve 63
Are You Experienced? 66
Ecology 67
Totally 70

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  • Posted January 9, 2010

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    Life is unpredictable, carry poetry with you

    For the past six months, I have carried one of Tony Hoagland's poetry chapbooks with me for another perspective of the inanities of life, to smile about the imperfection of our human desire for perfection in the ways that the author shares poem by poem, frame by frame, line by line. His work is wry, honest, troubling and sometimes belly-shaking hilarious.

    Donkey Gospel is good medicine in perfectly-metered doses. Enjoy how revealing and fun poetry can be.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 21, 2001

    So Easy To Relate To

    Tony Hoagland writes about you and me, all of us, everyone of us. As I read his book I kept saying out loud, 'Yes' and 'How True'

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 25, 2000

    Straightforward and smart!

    Tony came to read to my school last year and there was a lot of controversy about one particular poem that he wrote, 'Self-improvement.' The problem was that the teachers took offense because they chose to concentrate on merely the surface of the words, while the students looked deeper into the poem and discovered what he was trying to get across. His work is direct but crafty. Though I have not yet purchased 'Donkey Gospel,' what I have read from the book is outstanding and I highly recommend it to anyone who has an open mind.

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