Recent Changes in the Vernacular

Poetry. Tony Hoagland's work grapples with the distortions of contemporary America and what it takes to remain human in these strange times. His wry, penetrating poems admired by Boomers and Millennials alike, restlessly seek to awaken us from our dream. Full of warm hearted cynicism, wild humor, and keen emotional attentiveness, his sensibility is so distinct it could be given its own adjective, "hoaglandesque."

• Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God: Poems
• Application for Release from the Dream: Poems
• The Art of Voice: Poetic Principles and Practice
• What Narcissism Means to Me: Poems
• Twenty Poems That Could Save America and Other Essays
• Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty: Poems
• Donkey Gospel: Poems
• Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft
• Sweet Ruin (Brittingham Prize in Poetry)
• Little Oceans