America's Tony Hoagland (1953-2018) was known for provocative poems
which interrogate human nature and contemporary culture with an
intimate and wild urgency, located somewhere between outrage,
stand-up comedy, and grief. The poems in his final collection Turn
Up the Ocean examine with an unflinching eye and mordant humour 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 long-standing injustices, the atrocities of
American empire and consumerism, and our continuing habit of
looking away. In these poems, perseverance depends on a gymnastics
of scepticism 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. Tony Hoagland's
poems poke and provoke at the same time as they entertain and
delight. He was 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 pushed the poem not just to its limits but over
the edge.
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