What Narcissism Means to Me

An eagerly awaited new collection of poems by contemporary favorite Tony Hoagland, author of Donkey Gospel

How did I come to believe in a government called Tony Hoagland?

With an economy based on flattery and self-protection?

and a sewage system of selective forgetting?

and an extensive history of broken promises?

--from "Argentina"

In What Narcissism Means to Me, award-winning poet Tony Hoagland levels his …