Soon After Rain, by James Hoggard
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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. 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. Running throughout this collection is a powerful use of environmental collapse as both theme and metaphor.
Soon After Rain, by James Hoggard- Amazon Sales Rank: #4033439 in Books
- Brand: Hoggard, James
- Published on: 2015-03-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .40" h x 5.90" w x 8.70" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 96 pages
Review “If there is a better book of poetry based on weather—as subject, theme, motif—literal, symbolic, or metaphorical, I certainly haven’t seen it. . . . 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. 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“James Hoggard is a Texan of extraordinary scope: family man, athlete, teacher, translator, author. As a writer, he has proved to be a master of the novel, short stories, essays, and nonfiction books. But as this remarkable collection shows, he is at heart a poet. The range displayed in Soon After Rain is stunning, with poems inspired by travel, works of art, day-to-day life, classic literature, aging, weather, and nature—most especially nature—each honed honestly and exquisitely. Soon After Rain is a major achievement.” —W .K. Stratton, past president, Texas Institute of Letters, and author, Chasing the Rodeo“The atmospherics of these closely observed poems are replete with blessings.” —Kurt Heinzelman, professor of poetry and poetics, University of Texas–Austin, and author, Intimacies & Other Devices"Inspired by art, travel, politics, classical mythology and weather (to name a few), Soon after Rain is large-hearted as well as large-minded. Hoggard is a prodigious and prolific talent with an intellectual curiosity who produces equally well a pastoral celebration of the benediction of rain ('Soon after rain has stopped, a silence comes when no bird sings and no wind stirs. The world seems briefly mute and sweet attention’s everywhere.'), an anguished, outraged elegy for Nineveh ('…this place had been huge when great cities were few.') and a bemused lament over questionable land development decisions ('There are no antique shards to dig up here. The Indians dared not set their camps near here.') —Michelle Newy Lancaster, texasbooklover.com
About the Author
James Hoggard is a translator, a playwright, a novelist, an essayist, and a poet whose work has appeared in numerous publications, including Arts & Letters, Harvard Review, and Words Without Borders. He is the recipient of the Lon Tinkle Award for Excellence Sustained Throughout a Career, a poet laureate of Texas, and the former president of the Texas Institute of Letters. He is the Perkins-Prothro Distinguished Professor of English at Midwestern State University and the author of more than 20 books, including The Devil's Fingers & Other Personal Essays, The Mayor's Daughter, Riding the Wind, Triangles of Light: The Edward Hopper Poems, Trotter Ross, and Wearing the River. He lives in Wichita Falls, Texas.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Soon after Rain is a large-hearted as well as large-minded new collection from a former Texas Poet Laureate By 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 (to name a few), Soon after Rain is large-hearted as well as large-minded. Hoggard is a prodigious and prolific talent with an intellectual curiosity who produces equally well a pastoral celebration of the benediction of rain (“Soon after rain has stopped, a silence comes when no bird sings and no wind stirs. The world seems briefly mute and sweet attention’s everywhere.”), an anguished, outraged elegy for Nineveh (“…this place had been huge when great cities were few.”) and a bemused lament over questionable land development decisions (“There are no antique shards to dig up here. The Indians dared not set their camps near here.”)Hoggard uses several types of repetition in his work that is rhythmic and therefore frequently comforting, especially when paired with the childlike wonder at the natural world in “Touching Different Worlds”:There were worlds under water,and worlds under rocks, worlds in tall grassand worlds in the thick oak woods.This morphs into an appreciation of humor in nature in “A Clown Show in the Sky” when a scissortail alights on a hawk in flight:I’ve seen these scissortails ride winds in waysthat look as if they’re climbing walls,as if they’ve rearranged the wind so theycan hang in air – they’re conjurers that liketo ride bare-backed the backs of birds like this:the talon-beaked, cold-eyed and fang-clawed hawk.Which contrasts with an adult’s apprehension of the possibilities inherent in spring storms in “A Terror Fills the Air”:as clouds turn black and air becomes pale green:a sickness in the atmosphere, a pallof yellow haze, infection in the air.Travel evokes a sense of continuity in this poet and is a balm for the soul in “Sky Over Knossos”:Gods had been born in the hills near there.Daedalus had built his plane near there,and a freak of a beast once frightened the place,and large-breasted women dancedand, leaping, front-flipped over bulls,and olive oil softened skin, seasoned pots,and wine freed talk into song,and sky and land remained matesin ways my own world had not.Travel fulfills its highest purpose for Hoggard – recognition of ourselves in the other. This is “The Draw of the Other” in its entirety:I’m drawn, I know, toward what I do not know,for foreignness has never made me whatI do not recognize – I see what is,I see what might have been, I see what mightyet come to be, but most I see a formof clarity that’s not till now been mine.I hear new cries for justice, too. I hearcries for compassion now and realizeI’ve pitched my tent most everywhere. I’ve beenwhere there was little left but hope, and thereI saw high bursts of mountain majesty:a shock of craggy forms that were not mineand likely never would be mine though theysomehow found home in me, and I in them.I’m drawn, I know, toward what I do not know.It’s often otherness that blesses me.I read this collection on the best possible day – the first spring thunderstorm had passed through the night before and all was clean and the sun was warm and the breeze was cool and every bird in the vicinity was calling around my cabin in west Texas and I was immersed as senses merged with art. I cannot imagine a collection as suited for spring in Texas as Soon after Rain.
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