%0 Journal Article %T Tony Hoagland. Hard Rain %A Erik MARTINY %J E-rea : Revue ¨¦lectronique d¡¯¨¦tudes sur le Monde Anglophone %D 2006 %I %X Tony Hoagland is still little known in Europe and yet he made his way into the prestigious British encyclopaedia Contemporary Poets at a very early stage. Since then he has also published Donkey Gospel and What Narcissism Means to Me, books that have won him a swathe of awards in North America. As these titles suggest, Hoagland¡¯s characteristic tone is marked by a deep devotion to hedonism in all its manifestations, humour being one of its mainstays. While Hoagland¡¯s aesthetic dedication to t... %U http://erea.revues.org/694