Soon after rain
Subtitle: new poems
By: James Hoggard
Publisher: Wings Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: San Antonio, Texas
Language: eng
Number of pages: 83
ISBN-13: 9781609404284; 9781609404291; 9781609404307; 9781609404314
Work titles: Poems
Description: "James Hoggardʼs 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, he time and again turns his attention to forms like pantoum and ghazals that heighten the readersʼ responses to the stories he tells in verse. In fact, one of the signal pieces in the volume shows Hoggard unearthing an old story about Odysseusʼ 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. Running throughout this collection is, however, a powerful use of environmental collapse as both theme and metaphor"--Publisher.