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Born in November 19, 1953 / United States / English

Poems by Tony Hoagland

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Jet

... On Earth, men celebrate their hairiness,and it is good, a way of letting life ...

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Lucky

... of your old enemybecause the tastebuds at least are not broken ...

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Why the Young Men Are So Ugly

... their buddy in the face for joy,or make a joke about gravy and bottomless holes ...

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Grammar

... everybody turns:some kind of light is coming from her head ...

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Reading Moby-Dick at 30,000 Feet

... in lines so steady and so straightthey implied the enormous concentration ...

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How It Adds Up

... ,  And when you do, you will keep looking for it  ...

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Beauty

... leaving faint but permanent blue stitches in her cheeks,  ...

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Memory As a Hearing Aid

... the guitarist whirled and sprayed us with machine-gun riffs,  ...

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America

... And I look at the student with his acne and cell phone and phony ghetto clothes ...

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Windchime

... t there. No one, including me, especially anymore believes ...

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Don’t Tell Anyone

... when my wife, standing in the kitchen one afternoon, told me ...

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Wasteful Gesture Only Not

... and in bed when she tries to remember her mother, ...

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Arrows

... He takes the first pills in a thirty-pill day,  ...

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At the Galleria Shopping Mall

... one comparing the breast size of an actress from Hollywood ...

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Personal

... the breeze and the river and the color of the fields ...