Application for release from the dream : poems / Tony Hoagland.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Hoagland, Tony, author.

Standardized Title:

• Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• American poetry--21st century.
• American poetry.

Genre:

• Poetry.

Physical Description:

84 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2015.

Summary:

Are we corrupt or innocent, fragmented or whole? Are responsibility and freedom irreconcilable? Do we value memory or succumb to our forgetfulness? Application for Release from the Dream, Tony Hoagland's fifth collection of poems, pursues these questions with the hobnailed abandon of one who needs to know how a citizen of twenty-first-century America can stay human. With whiplash nerve and tender curiosity, Hoagland both surveys the damage and finds the wonder that makes living worthwhile. Mirthful, fearless, and precise, these poems are full of judgment and mercy.

Contents:

• A Little Consideration
• The Edge of the Frame 5
• Summer 6
• Ode to the Republic 8
• Proportion 10
• Application for Release from the Dream 11
• Wine Dark Sea 12
• The Hero's Journey 13
• Special Problems in Vocabulary 15
• Eventually the Topic 17
• Little Champion 18
• Dreamheart
• Crazy Motherfucker Weather 21
• Dreamheart 23
• The Roman Empire 24
• But the Men 25
• Don't Tell Anyone 27
• Bible Study 29
• Misunderstandings 30
• Introduction to Matter 31
• The Social Life of Water 32
• The Wetness 33
• Romans 35
• Misunderstandings
• The Neglected Art of Description 39
• Airport 41
• A History of High Heels 42
• A Little Consideration 43
• Please Don't 44
• Faulkner 46
• Wasp 48
• The Complex Sentence 49
• Controlled Substances 50
• WhiteWriter 52
• Ship 53
• Because It Is Houston, 54
• Crossing Water 56
• Update 58
• The Edge of the Frame
• Reasons to Be Happy 61
• December, with Antlers 62
• His Majesty 63
• Western 65
• Song for Picking Up 67
• The Story of the Mexican Housekeeper 68
• Coming and Going 71
• Real Estate 72
• Fetch 74
• Summer Dusk 76
• There Is No Word 77
• Aubade 79.

ISBN:

• 9781555977184
• 1555977189

OCLC:

898419501