by exposing the corporate dishonesty of continuing to advertise a bag of corn chips as "big" after making the cost-saving decision to subtract a few corn chips from every bag, [Tony] Hoagland turns abruptly in the third stanza to spirituality: "Confucious said this would happen--/that language would be hijacked and twisted/by a couple of tricksters from the Business Department." Though this commentary seems, at first, flip, Hoagland's concern about language is genuine. In many of his poems, language evades meaning, making the boundary between the imaginary and the real increasingly elusive.from Bookslut: Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty by Tony Hoagland
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