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Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty: Poems |  | Author: Tony Hoagland
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Media: Paperback
Pages: 100
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.4
ISBN: 1555975496
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9781555975494
Publication Date: February 2, 2010
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Product Description
The new poetry collection by Tony Hoagland, the award-winning author of What Narcissim Means To Me and Donkey Gospel
In Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty, Tony Hoagland is deep inside a republic that no longer offers reliable signage, in which comfort and suffering are intimately entwined, and whose citizens gasp for oxygen without knowing why. With Hoagland’s trademark humor and social commentary, these poems are exhilarating for their fierce moral curiosity, their desire to name the truth, and their celebration of the resilience of human nature.
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 New and vintage poems to blow you away March 9, 2010
Adair Rowland (Amesbury, MA USA)
Ever since discovering "What Narcissism Means to Me" in 2004, I've hungered for the "Tony take" on everything from millennial materialism to awakening from illness. Very personal, very social, uncanny marksmanship in his imagery, Hoagland makes me remember what poetry can do beyond any other medium. Open this collection anywhere, read aloud, and watch if you don't say "Whoa!" as what just happened sinks in.
 Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty: Poems February 17, 2010
Sacramento Book Review (Sacramento, CA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Tony Hoagland is known for his wry humor and satiric style, which made instant classics of his previous volumes of poetry, //What Narcissism Means to Me// and //Donkey Gospel//. In his new book of poetry, //Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty,// Hoagland seeks to capture that same magic, but falls a little short.
His well-known humor is certainly present in poems which compare human mating rituals to those of animals, examine the psychology of Britney Spears, and suggest that America's essence can be found in a mall food court. His writing showcases a post-modern and self-referential bent; poems about poems, or about writing, abound and are sometimes thought-provoking yet just as likely annoyingly clever.
Hoagland unfortunately has the tendency to get in his own way. He is so skillful in crafting the sound bite or clever turn of phrase that the poems are often unable to reach that deeper level of thought or feeling which can be so powerful. While the poems are often laugh-out-loud funny, they leave readers hungry for more substance.
Reviewed by Katie Cappello
A siren call to remember the most valuable aspects of day-to-day life February 13, 2010
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The fourth poetry collection by University of Houston teacher Tony Hoagland, Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty is an anthology of free-verse spinning a tongue-in-cheek parable of modern American life. A siren call to remember the most valuable aspects of day-to-day life - aspects that are tied to humanity and community rather than wealth or power. Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty is ultimately a reminder that it is better to be personally "unincorporated". "Voyage": I feel as if we opened a book about great ocean voyages / and found ourselves on a great ocean voyage: / sailing through December, around the horn of Christmas / and into the January Sea, and sailing on and on // in a novel without a moral but one in which / all the characters who died in the middle chapters / make the sunsets near the book's end more beautiful.
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