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Title: Application for Release from the Dream: Poems
Author: Tony Hoagland
ISBN: 9781555977184
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2015
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 96
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
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The eagerly awaited, brilliant, and engaging new poems by Tony Hoagland, author of
What Narcissism Means to Me
The parade for the slain police officer
goes past the bakery and the smell of fresh bread
makes the mourners salivate against their will. –from “Note to Reality” 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.
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