Ebook {Epub PDF} What Narcissism Means to Me by Tony Hoagland

The following is a poem from What Narcissism Means to Me by Tony Hoagland, published by Graywolf Press in November Reasons to Survive November. November like a train wreck— as if a locomotive made of cold had hurtled out of Canada and crashed into a million trees, flaming the leaves, setting the woods on fire. The sky is a thick, cold gauze—. In What Narcissism Means to Me, award-winning poet Tony Hoagland levels his particular brand of acute irony not only on the personal life, but also on some provinces of American culture. In playful narratives, lyrical outbursts, and overheard conversations, Hoagland cruises the milieu, exploring the spiritual vacancies of American satisfaction. What Narcissism Means To Me is an honest and artful way of presenting Tony Hoagland's world with certainty, sincerity and wit. His poems often are unyielding self-criticisms of his character as a whole, yet he manages to find the humor in the process and findings of his search/5(67).

Tony Hoagland was born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He earned a BA from the University of Iowa and an MFA from the University of Arizona. Hoagland was the author of the poetry collections Sweet Ruin (), which was chosen for the Brittingham Prize in Poetry and won the Zacharis Award from Emerson College; Donkey Gospel (), winner of the James Laughlin Award; What Narcissism Means to Me. Hoagland funnels 21st-century corporate detritus into his more Whitmanesque impulses, in which he begins to explore a sweeping and explicitly American identity oriented by Radio Shacks and K marts. Tony Hoagland's new book, What Narcissism Means to Me from Graywolf Press, is almost perfect. From the conversational beginnings, where he shares a beer on a summer porch, to the last poem (reprinted on the back page of the American Poetry Review Nov-Dec issue) every poem sings sweet truth.

WHAT NARCISSISM MEANS TO ME is Tony Hoagland’s best-regarded collection for a reason: It’s his first truly cohesive work, one that presses true emotion up against the cumbersome, forever-encroaching reality of American industry and culture. Narcissism Means To Me Tony Hoagland Narcissistic, Injury. When the, narcissist, feels wronged in any way it sets off a litany of foul 4 Types of Narcissism. What Narcissism Means to Me is certainly Hoagland's most realized volume of poetry, and it succeeds in its dance of changing tones and shifting perceptions—despite the fact that one of the themes of the book is the struggle against change, the poems are in constant flux. Perhaps even the less successful poems work within the book's overall concept, as the excesses of these few make the author appear flawed and vulnerable—and thus more accessible and human.