“The future ours for a while to hold, with its heaviness— and hope moving from one location to another like the holy ghost that it is.” — tony hoagland Copy Share Image
“Until we say the truth, there can be no tenderness. As long as there is desire, we will not be safe” — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
“The future ours for a while to hold, with its heaviness— and hope moving from one location to another like the holy ghost that… — tony hoagland Copy Share Image
These poems possess intelligence, erudition, gravitas and urgency. Serious and moving in voice and ambition, this passionately lyrical and articulate work reminds me very… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
“So the avenues we walk down, full of bodies wearing faces, are full of hidden talent: enough to make pianos moan, sidewalks split, streetlights… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
There’s Socialism and Communism and Capitalism and there’s Feminism and Hedonism, and there’s Catholicism and Bipedalism and Consumerism, but I think Narcissism is the… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
So much of what I love about poetry lies in the vast possibilities of voice, the spectacular range of idiosyncratic flavors that can be… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
“There isn’t a word for walking out of the grocery store with a gallon jug of milk in a plastic sack that should have… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
“the glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters” — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
“Because if marriage is a kind of womb, divorce is the being born again.” — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
“I know there are some people out there who think I am supposed to end up in a room by myself with a gun… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
No matter how you feel you have to act like you are very popular with yourself; very relaxed and purposeful very unconfused and not… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
