Soon After Rain
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.82 (958 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1609404289 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Soon after Rain is a large-hearted as well as large-minded new collection from a former Texas Poet Laureate Soon after Rain: New PoemsJames HoggardWings Press978-1-609Soon after Rain is a large-hearted as well as large-minded new collection from a former Texas Poet Laureate Texasbooklover Soon after Rain: New PoemsJames HoggardWings Press978-1-60940-428-4$16, 83 pagesSoon after Rain is the new poetry collection from James Hoggard, former Poet Laureate of Texas, past-president of the Texas Institute of Letters and winner of the Lon Tinkle Award. Inspired by art, travel, politics, classical mythology and weather (t. 0-Soon after Rain is a large-hearted as well as large-minded new collection from a former Texas Poet Laureate Texasbooklover Soon after Rain: New PoemsJames HoggardWings Press978-1-60940-428-4$16, 83 pagesSoon after Rain is the new poetry collection from James Hoggard, former Poet Laureate of Texas, past-president of the Texas Institute of Letters and winner of the Lon Tinkle Award. Inspired by art, travel, politics, classical mythology and weather (t. 28-Soon after Rain is a large-hearted as well as large-minded new collection from a former Texas Poet Laureate Texasbooklover Soon after Rain: New PoemsJames HoggardWings Press978-1-60940-428-4$16, 83 pagesSoon after Rain is the new poetry collection from James Hoggard, former Poet Laureate of Texas, past-president of the Texas Institute of Letters and winner of the Lon Tinkle Award. Inspired by art, travel, politics, classical mythology and weather (t. $16, 83 pagesSoon after Rain is the new poetry collection from James Hoggard, former Poet Laureate of Texas, past-president of the Texas Institute of Letters and winner of the Lon Tinkle Award. Inspired by art, travel, politics, classical mythology and weather (t
There is an earned reason for the fact that James Hoggard is deemed ‘brilliant’ by his literary peers. It is on display within these pages.” —David Lee, former poet laureate of Utah and author, Last Call. If you are interested in beautifully crafted, thoughtful, and memorable poems displaying a breadth and depth of reading, travel, experience, acute observation, and wise rendition, Soon After Rain may well be exactly what you’re looking for. “If there is a better book of poetry based on weather—as
In fact, one of the signal pieces in the volume shows Hoggard unearthing an old story about Odysseus’ trying through a wealth of trickery to get out of going to the Trojan War. What the tale adds up to, however, is a deeply moving love story that seems genuinely contemporary. James Hoggard’s new collection of poems is an elegant, highly energetic volume that takes its readers through a wealth of settings, times, and forms. As versatile a poet as there is, Hoggard time and again turns his attention to forms like pantoum and ghazals that heighten the readers’ responses to the stories he tells in verse. Running throughout this collection is a powerful use of environmental collapse as both theme and metaphor.