PRIEST TURNED THERAPIST TREATS FEAR OF GOD

Tony Hoaglands poems interrogate human nature and contemporary culture with an intimate and wild urgency, located somewhere between outrage, stand-up comedy, and grief. His new poems are no less observant of the human and the worldly, no less skeptical, and no le ss amusing, but they have drifted toward the greater depths of open emotion. Over six collections, Hoaglands poetry has gotten bigg er, more tender, and more encompassing. The poems in Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God turn his clear-eyed vision toward th e hidden s...[Read more]