Tony Hoagland

The slap of recognition

by Keith Taylor

posted 11/1/2004

Tony Hoagland is one of the best of a new group of American poets who all share certain qualities: witty without being archly comic, accessible without being simple, political without being strident. Even the title of Hoagland's most recent book, What Narcissism Means to Me, tells you something about him. He can make fun of himself even as he makes fun of

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