Don't Tell Anyone (The Hollyridge Press Chapbook Series)

Tell everyone! Pure Hoagland, there is nothing about his poetry that suggests censorship. An edgewalker, he continues to challenge the myths and stories we tell one another in our effort to 'air-brush' reality. I love his determination and capacity to push through the superficial, the politically correct -- all the subtleties that diminish critical thinking, free speech and freewill. He knows the emperor is naked long before the rest of us. Through his raw-boned, authentic and beautifully written poetry, he emboldens his readers to speak their own truth. If you haven't read Hoagland, do it now. If you have, you will have already purchased this book!

Vintage Hoagland, with wit and heart in abundance, hunting down the way we live now, making you laugh and say ouch and yes, all all at the same time. Every poem a bull's-eye.

What can I say? Hoagland's one of the best poets we have today. And he gets better as he goes along. Not his deepest poems, but well worth reading.

tony is the best--LOVE him and all his books. great read.

AN EASY WAY TO RAISE YOUR SPIRITS AND CONSCIOUSNESS (IF YOU WANT TO)

Hoagland's best to date. I purchased it three hours ago and I'm on my third read. If you need to laugh at how ridiculously difficult life is, this book is the guidebook to that place.