Description

Graywolf Press, paperback

Publication Date: July 12, 2022

Publisher Marketing: Over the course of his celebrated career, Tony Hoagland ventured fearlessly into the unlit alleys of emotion and experience. The poems inTurn Up the Oceanexamine with an unflinching eye and mordant humor the reality of living and dying in a time and culture that conspire to erase our inner lives. Hoagland’s signature wit and unparalleled observations take in long-standing injustices, the atrocities of American empire and consumerism, and our ongoing habit of looking away. In these poems, perseverance depends on a gymnastics of skepticism and comedy, a dogged quest for authentic connection, and the consolations of the natural world.Turn Up the Oceanis a remarkable and moving collection, a fitting testament to Hoagland’s devotion to the capaciousness and art of poetry.