What Narcissism Means to Me

How did I come to believe in a government called Tony Hoagland?

With an economy based on flattery and self-protection?

and a sewage system of selective forgetting?

and an extensive history of broken promises?

—from "Argentina"

In What Narcissism Means to Me, award-winning poet Tony Hoagland levels his particular brand of acute irony not only on the personal life, but also on some provinces ...