What Narcissism Means to Me

What Narcissism Means to MeAuthor: Tony Hoagland Poetry by individual poets Published on 27 January 2005 by Bloodaxe Books Ltd in the United Kingdom. Paperback 144 pages 234 x 155 x 11 242g Tony Hoaglands zany poems poke and provoke at the same time as they entertain and delight. He was American poetrys hilarious high priest of irony, a wisecracker and a risktaker whose disarming humour, self scathing and tenderness are all fuelled by an aggressive moral intelligence. He pushes

Author: Tony Hoagland

Poetry by individual poets

Published on 27 January 2005 by Bloodaxe Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 144 pages
234 x 155 x 11 | 242g

Tony Hoagland’s zany 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 risktaker 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. His first UK book of poems is a selection drawing on three collections, Sweet Ruin (1992), Donkey Gospel (1998) and What Narcissism Means to Me (2003). He published three later collections, Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty (2010), Application for Release from the Dream (2015) and Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God, published posthumously in the UK by Bloodaxe in 2019.