Poems by Tony Hoagland
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Jet
... On Earth, men celebrate their hairiness,and it is good, a way of letting life ...
Lucky
... of your old enemybecause the tastebuds at least are not broken ...
Why the Young Men Are So Ugly
... their buddy in the face for joy,or make a joke about gravy and bottomless holes ...
Grammar
... everybody turns:some kind of light is coming from her head ...
Reading Moby-Dick at 30,000 Feet
... in lines so steady and so straightthey implied the enormous concentration ...
How It Adds Up
... , And when you do, you will keep looking for it ...
Beauty
... leaving faint but permanent blue stitches in her cheeks, ...
Memory As a Hearing Aid
... the guitarist whirled and sprayed us with machine-gun riffs, ...
America
... And I look at the student with his acne and cell phone and phony ghetto clothes ...
Windchime
... t there. No one, including me, especially anymore believes ...
Don’t Tell Anyone
... when my wife, standing in the kitchen one afternoon, told me ...
Wasteful Gesture Only Not
... and in bed when she tries to remember her mother, ...
Arrows
... He takes the first pills in a thirty-pill day, ...
At the Galleria Shopping Mall
... one comparing the breast size of an actress from Hollywood ...
Personal
... the breeze and the river and the color of the fields ...
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