Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God

Name: Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God
Brand: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
SKU: 9781780374789
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English

By (author): Tony Hoagland

Tony Hoagland's poems interrogate human nature and contemporary culture with an intimate and wild urgency, located somewhere between outrage, stand-up comedy, and grief. His new poems are no less observant of the human and the worldly, no less sceptical, and no less amusing, but they have drifted toward the greater depths of open emotion. Over six collections, Hoaglands poetry has become bigger, more tender, and more encompassing. The poems in Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God turn his clear-eyed vision toward the hidden spaces and spaciousness in the human predicament. Tony Hoagland's poems poke and provoke at the same time as they entertain and delight. He is American poetry's hilarious 'high priest of irony', a wisecracker and a risk-taker whose disarming humour, self-scathing and tenderness are all fuelled by an aggressive moral intelligence. He pushes the poem not just to its limits but over the edge. This UK edition of Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God also includes additional poems from another recent US collection of his poetry, Recent Changes in the Vernacular (2017). See more

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Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
Publication Date: 20 Jun 2019
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781780374789

About Tony Hoagland

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.