My debut full-length poetry collection––Huddled in the Night Sky––will be released on October 20th and is available now for pre-sale.
"Hogle's book is about closeness in all its forms: electric, fleeting, lifelong, sometimes misread, yet unforgettable.”
––Ricardo Maldonado, author of The Life Assignment, former president and executive director of the Academy of American Poets.
“Reading these sumptuously descriptive yet sweetly vulnerable poems feels at times like discovering a stash of postcards written to former lovers.”
––Mark Bibbins, author of 13th Balloon
"Each poem feels both meticulously crafted and tenderly alive, revealing the ache and radiance of connection. This is a book that reminds us how desire, loss, and wonder can coexist in a single breath.”
––Laura Kasischke, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry for Space, In Chains
"The poems in Don Hogle’s debut collection consume the reader with love’s heat and delight, the sweat of sex, and the hollow heart of sorrow.”
––Valentina Gnup, author of Ruined Music
You can order Huddled directly from the publisher, Fernwood Press (Barclay Press), at Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and many other book retailers such as bookshop.org.
My chapbook, Madagascar, is available from Seven Kitchens Press. The epigraph to the chapbook is from “Planetarium” by Adrienne Rich:
I have been standing all my life in the
direct path of a battery of signals
the most accurately transmitted most
untranslatable language in the universe
Madagascar explores the signals one boy received growing up, and how the adult the child grew into translated and dealt with them.
You can read a sample poem from the book – “Dormition” – on the press’s website.
