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

Once more the anthropologist of our American scene brings us his reports from the present. With a ruthless gaze Tony Hoagland attends to all the details of modern frailty and human joy. What is wrong with you? he asks of His Majesty Mr.-Boombox-In-My-Jeep driving the beach road at 2 AM. What is wrong with all of us? these poems want to know and set off finding out. Dont Tell Anyone is a chronicle of life love marriage sex and shopping as only Tony Hoagland is able to render such things. His poems speak conversationally as if your good friend is telling you a story but there is great wit and inventiveness behind each of them. Dont tell anyone -- tell everyone about these poems.