Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Great Regulars: [Tony] Hoagland begins this small collection

with what might seem a proper conclusion: "so we were turned into Americans / to learn something about loneliness," critiquing and mourning the cataclysm of American complacency. His poems are concerned with America's history, the way that we are drowning and yet still refuse to reform--to "take it personal" as he calls for in one poem.

from Powells: Review-A-Day: The Poet as Magellan

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