Turn up the ocean : poems / Tony Hoagland.
| Author/creator |
Hoagland, Tony author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2022. |
| Description | 85 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | Machine generated contents note: Bible All Out of Order -- Gorgon -- Immersion -- Disclosure Agreement -- Botany -- Why I Like the Hospital -- Squad Car Light -- Turn Up the Ocean -- The Reason He Brought His Gun to School: A Blues -- Butter -- Diagnosis -- Nature Is Strong -- Illness and Literature -- "On a Scale of 1 -- 10," Said the Nurse, "How Would You Rate Your Pain Today?" -- Bandage -- American Story -- Ode to the West Wind -- How the Old Poetry Happened -- I Don't Ask What You're Thinking -- Causes of Death -- Virginia Woolf -- Four Beginnings for an Apocalyptic Novel of Manners -- The Power of Traffic -- Weather of Pain -- Autumn -- On Why I Must Decline to Receive the Prayers You Say You Are Constantly Sending -- Mistaken Identity Librarian Syndrome -- Landscape without Jason -- Walk -- Success -- Dante's Bar and Grill -- King of the Night -- Siberia -- Economica -- The Decline of the Roman Empire -- Cuisine -- The Interfaith Chapel Is in the South Terminal -- Homework -- Reading While Sick in the Middle of the Night -- Harbor -- Incompletion -- Sunday at the Mall -- Among the Intellectuals -- In the Beautiful Rain -- Peaceful Transition. |
| Abstract | "Over the course of his celebrated career, Tony Hoagland ventured fearlessly into the unlit alleys of emotion and experience. The poems in Turn Up the Ocean examine with an unflinching eye and mordant humor the reality of living and dying in a time and culture that conspire to erase our inner lives. Hoagland's signature wit and unparalleled observations take in longstanding injustices, the atrocities of American empire and consumerism, and our ongoing habit of looking away. In these poems, perseverance depends on a gymnastics of skepticism and comedy, a dogged quest for authentic connection, and the consolations of the natural world. Turn Up the Ocean is a remarkable and moving collection, a fitting testament to Hoagland's devotion to the capaciousness and art of poetry"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (page 85). |
| Genre/form | Humor. |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| LCCN | 2021945918 |
| ISBN | 9781644450925 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 1644450925 |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | PS3558 .O3355 T87 2022 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |