Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God

Author:   Tony Hoagland
Publisher:   Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Edition:   International ed.
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Pages:   104
Publication Date:   20 June 2019
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Author:   Tony Hoagland
Publisher:   Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Imprint:   Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Edition:   International ed.
ISBN:  

9781780374789


ISBN 10:   178037478
Pages:   104
Publication Date:   20 June 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

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I 13 Entangle 15 A Walk around the Property 16 The Romance of the Tree 17 Happy and Free 18 Which Would You Prefer, a Story or an Explanation? 19 Nobility 20 No Thank You 22 Proof of Life 23 Distant Regard 25 Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God II 29 In the Waiting Room with Leonard Cohen 31 Ten Questions for the New Age 33 Ten Reasons We Cannot Seem to Make Progress 34 Epistle of Momentary Generosity 35 A Short History of Modern Art 37 Theater Piece 39 Couture 40 An Ordinary Night in Athens, Ohio 41 Inexhaustible Resource 42 Achilles 43 Examples of Justice 44 Better Than Expected III 47 The Truth 48 Frog Song 49 Scotch Tape 50 Playboy 52 Dinner Guest· 53 Rain-father 55 Moment in the Conversation 57 Marriage Song 58 Trying to Keep You Happy · 59 Taking My Medicine 60 The Third Dimension 62 The Classics IV 65 Upward 67 Good People 69 Cause of Death: Fox News 71 Real Estate 72 Legend · 73 Data Rain 74 Confusion of Privilege 75 Hope 76 I Have Good News 78 Into the Mystery V from RECENT CHANGES IN THE VERNACULAR 81 Questions of Influence 83 What They Told Me at the Boys’ Club in Gainesville 85 Noon at the Gym 86 The Age of Iron 88 Maybe a Hero Is Crossing the Mountains 90 Ken, Don’t Go to Meet the Ex-Girlfriend 92 Butter 94 Empire

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'The writing is classic Hoagland: accessible and conversational, sometimes humorous, as he scrutinises everything from a book he's reading to mortality and the emotions that arise when he thinks of the music of Leonard Cohen while sitting in a hospital waiting room... The work raises important questions 'about the hazards of playing at innocence', why our culture can't seem to make progress and why no one seems to recognise the impending environmental crisis.' - The Washington Post; 'He belongs to that wagon-circle of American poets who believe in a common reader ...Hoagland is a poet of a ragged, half-satirical, half-lyrical intensity. If Billy Collins is Updike, Hoagland is Salinger, or perhaps Holden Caulfield...making us think we know the ground we are on, then showing us that we don't...For me, he not only pulls the rug from under my feet when it comes to the moral complacencies and platitudes that I don't notice I live by, he does the same with my given poetic certainties.' - Henry Shukman, Poetry London; 'Hilarious, searing poems that break your heart so fast you hardly notice you're standing knee deep in a pool of implications. They are of this moment, right now - the present that we're already homesick for.' - Marie Howe


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Tony Hoagland (1953-2018) was born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. His father was an Army doctor, and Hoagland grew up on various military bases throughout the South. He taught at the University of Houston and in the low residency MFA program at Warren Wilson College. He lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and was married to the writer Kathleen Lee. His first collection, Sweet Ruin (1992), won the Brittingham Prize in Poetry. His second, Donkey Gospel (1998), won the James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets. The third, What Narcissism Means to Me (2003), was shortlisted for a National Book Circle Critics Award. His first UK book of poems, What Narcissism Means to Me: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2005) drew upon these three collections, and was followed by Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty (2010) and Application for Release from the Dream, published by Graywolf Press in the US in 2015 and by Bloodaxe in Britain in 2016. The final two collections he published, written over the same period, were a small collection, Recent Changes in the Vernacular (Tres Chicas Press, 2017), and Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God (Graywolf Press, 2018). The Bloodaxe UK edition of Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God, due out in June 2019, also includes some poems from Recent Changes in the Vernacular. A final collection, Turn Up the Ocean, drawing on the last poems he wrote, is published by Bloodaxe and Graywolf in 2022. He also published Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft (Graywolf Press, USA, 2006) and Twenty Poems That Could Save America and Other Essays (Graywolf Press, USA, 2014). He was given a number of literary honours, including the Jackson Poetry Prize, awarded by Poets & Writers magazine; the Mark Twain Award, given by the Poetry Foundation; and the O.B. Hardison Jr. Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library.

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