Sweet Ruin - Volume 8

Tony Hoagland captures the recognizably American landscape of a man of his generation: sex, friendship, rock and roll, cars, and disillusion. With what Robert Pinsky has called 'the saving vulgarity of American poetry, ' Hoagland's small biographies of destruction reveal that defeat is a natural prelude to grace and loss a kind of threshold to freedom.

About the author

Tony Hoagland has published three chapbooks of poetry--History of Desire, A Change in Plans, and In Gratitude for Talk--and contributed to the anthologies New American Poets of the 90's, The Best of Crazyhorse, and The Pushcart Anthology 1991. He now lives in Waterville, Maine.

Product details

• Authors: Tony Hoagland
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.1992
• EAN: 9780299135843
• ISBN: 978-0-299-13584-3
• No. of pages: 92
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 235 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 144 g
• Series: Brittingham Prize in Poetry; Brittingham Prize in Poetry; Wisconsin Poetry
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies