America’s Tony Hoagland (1953-2018) was known for provocative poems which interrogate human nature and contemporary culture with an intimate and wild urgency
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drawing on the traditional Scots-Irish Gaelic alphabet of trees
So let Danielle’s translation be our 'secret entrance' to where 'the transparent marvel' at the heart of Maria’s poetics is revealed as unmissable and uncorrupted news—a different mind map
More covertly and controversially
Material Witness by Edward Ragg Paula Meehan America’s Tony Hoagland (1953-2018) wasMaterial Witness, Edward Ragg's sixth collection, bears witness to all manner of materials: from botany, bower birds, diving bell spiders, rock formations and coral reefs to a Nazi stamped photo of the poets mother as well as Dantes Divine Comedy and the Las Meninas paintings of Velzquez and Picasso. In three sections Scenes, Acts, Aftermaths Material Witness reveals an interlinking architecture, constructing a poetry profoundly wedded to the physical