| Description |
84 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
A Little Consideration -- The Edge of the Frame -- Summer -- Ode to the Republic -- Proportion -- Application for Release from the Dream -- Wine Dark Sea -- The Hero's Journey -- Special Problems in Vocabulary -- Eventually the Topic -- Little Champion -- Dreamheart -- Crazy Motherfucker Weather -- Dreamheart -- The Roman Empire -- But the Men -- Don't Tell Anyone -- Bible Study -- Misunderstandings -- Introduction to Matter -- The Social Life of Water -- The Wetness -- Romans -- Misunderstandings -- The Neglected Art of Description -- Airport -- A History of High Heels -- A Little Consideration -- Please Don't -- Faulkner -- Wasp -- The Complex Sentence -- Controlled Substances -- White Water -- Ship -- Because It Is Houston, -- Crossing Water -- Update -- The Edge of the Frame -- Reasons to Be Happy -- December, with Antlers -- His Majesty -- Western -- Song for Picking Up -- The Story of the Mexican Housekeeper -- Coming and Going -- Real Estate -- Fetch -- Summer Dusk -- There Is No Word -- Aubade -- Note to Reality |
| 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. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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| Chronological Term |
2000 - 2099
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Poetry.
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections
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| ISBN |
9781555977184 (paperback) |
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1555977189 (paperback) |
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1555979084 |
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9781555979089 |
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