false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172072663m/135915.jpg 135915 2 Tony Hoagland captures the recognizably American landscape of a man of his generation: sex, friendship, rock and roll, cars, high optimism, and disillusion. With what Robert Pinsky has called &#8220;the saving vulgarity of American poetry,&#8221; Hoagland&#8217;s small biographies of destruction reveal that defeat is a natural prelude to grace and loss a kind of threshold to freedom.<br> 130983 1 1 1993 Sweet Ruin total:141|5:60|4:52|3:26|2:3|1:0| 141 592 171 9 135915 0299135845 9780299135843 138 9 4.20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172072663m/135915.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135915.Sweet_Ruin 3 0 false Thu Jul 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 21:33:38 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 21:39:35 -0700 2009
Maybe months of...more...]]> 135915 0299135845 9780299135843 138 9 4.20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172072663m/135915.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135915.Sweet_Ruin 3 0 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Jan 29 09:16:21 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 09:25:04 -0800 2009 I think that detail is important, but it shouldn't be construed as a negative - I did not feel the collection was condesc...more...]]> 135915 0299135845 9780299135843 138 9 4.20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172072663m/135915.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135915.Sweet_Ruin 5 0 false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 19:46:13 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 19:54:58 -0700 2009 Sweet Ruin. If you're partial to accessible narrative poetry that is often very personal in nature, Hoagland's your man. He writes from the gut, but not without some inventive use of language. Here's a choice snippet: "I re...more...]]> 135915 0299135845 9780299135843 138 9 4.20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172072663m/135915.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135915.Sweet_Ruin 5 0 false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Sat Apr 04 12:02:08 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 04 12:14:08 -0700 2009
Oh man. It is only one in a million poets who manage to win me over, and Tony Hoagland reaaaaaally wins me over. A short excerpt from one of my favorite poems in the bunch (oddly enoug...more...]]> 135915 0299135845 9780299135843 138 9 4.20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172072663m/135915.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135915.Sweet_Ruin 4 0 false Sat Feb 07 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Tue Apr 07 15:36:45 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 15:36:45 -0700 2009 135915 0299135845 9780299135843 138 9 4.20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172072663m/135915.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135915.Sweet_Ruin 4 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Sun Jan 13 10:13:04 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 13 12:28:32 -0800 2008 135915 0299135845 9780299135843 138 9 4.20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172072663m/135915.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135915.Sweet_Ruin 4 0 false Tue Jul 15 12:32:25 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 12:35:11 -0700 2008
Hoagland's works feel like they ought to be posted on the doors and lockers of middle-aged men the way Keats and Kerouac populate hinge-hangers of adolescents.]]> 135915 0299135845 9780299135843 138 9 4.20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172072663m/135915.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135915.Sweet_Ruin 4 0 false Mon Oct 27 19:27:24 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 19:28:36 -0700 2008 135915 0299135845 9780299135843 138 9 4.20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172072663m/135915.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135915.Sweet_Ruin 4 0 false Tue Feb 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 24 23:25:24 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 23:25:24 -0700 2009 135915 0299135845 9780299135843 138 9 4.20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172072663m/135915.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135915.Sweet_Ruin 0 0 false Thu Dec 10 23:34:51 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 10 23:34:51 -0800 2009 135915 0299135845 9780299135843 138 9 4.20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172072663m/135915.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135915.Sweet_Ruin 3 0 false Fri Nov 27 15:24:28 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 27 15:24:28 -0800 2009 135915 0299135845 9780299135843 138 9 4.20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172072663m/135915.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135915.Sweet_Ruin 0 0 false Sat Nov 21 20:13:36 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 20:13:36 -0800 2009 135915 0299135845 9780299135843 138 9 4.20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172072663m/135915.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135915.Sweet_Ruin 0 0 false Mon Nov 02 06:06:17 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 06:06:17 -0800 2009 135915 0299135845 9780299135843 138 9 4.20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172072663m/135915.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135915.Sweet_Ruin 5 0 false Thu Oct 15 08:30:17 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 08:30:17 -0700 2009 135915 0299135845 9780299135843 138 9 4.20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172072663m/135915.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135915.Sweet_Ruin 5 0 false Sat Sep 26 12:55:39 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 12:55:39 -0700 2009 135915 0299135845 9780299135843 138 9 4.20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172072663m/135915.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135915.Sweet_Ruin 4 0 false Wed Sep 16 16:18:40 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 16:18:40 -0700 2009 135915 0299135845 9780299135843 138 9 4.20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172072663m/135915.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135915.Sweet_Ruin 5 0 false Mon Aug 24 11:57:18 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 11:57:18 -0700 2009 135915 0299135845 9780299135843 138 9 4.20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172072663m/135915.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135915.Sweet_Ruin 5 0 false Wed Aug 12 17:21:03 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 17:21:03 -0700 2009 135915 0299135845 9780299135843 138 9 4.20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172072663m/135915.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135915.Sweet_Ruin 3 0 false Wed Aug 12 13:31:32 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 13:31:32 -0700 2009 135915 0299135845 9780299135843 138 9 4.20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172072663m/135915.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135915.Sweet_Ruin 0 0 false Thu Aug 06 14:14:47 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 14:14:47 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=135915