Are we corrupt or innocent, fragmented or whole? Are responsibility
and freedom irreconcilable? Do we value memory or succumb to our
forgetfulness? Application for Release from the Dream, Tony
Hoagland's fifth collection of poems, pursues these questions with
the fierce abandon of one who needs to know how a citizen of
21st-century America can stay human. With whiplash nerve and tender
curiosity, Hoagland surveys the damage and finds the wonder that
makes living worthwhile. Mirthful, fearless, and precise, these
poems are full of judgment and mercy. 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.
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