dialectical poetry
Reading
In this lecture Tony Hoagland discusses tonal complexity in contemporary American poetry, with close readings of "Hospital" by Jason Shinder and "Merchants" by Czeslaw Milosz.
Reading
Tony Hoagland reads poems from the collections Donkey Gospel (1998), What Narcissism Means to Me (2003), and Hard Rain (2005), as well as one unpublished poem.