Horsegod: Collected Poems

Robert Bagg

Horsegod is Bagg's fifth collection, and adds powerful recent work to a selection from his earlier books. His poems have been published in The Atlantic, Agni, Boston Review, Massachusetts Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Poetry, and The Yale Review. His book Madonna of the Cello was a finalist for both the Pulitzer and NBA.

"A gorgeous collection that tells the author's life story in exquisite verse. A highlight is "The Closest Thing," the author's account of his brief brushes with Beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, a delicious treat for lovers of 20th-century literature. Superb poetry from an established talent."
Kirkus Discoveries

"Many of these poems are as powerful, shocking even, as any being written. Also quieter. They sink in and stay in. "Ostrakoi," "The Closest Thing," "Body Blows," "Be Good," "Horsegod," "Take Care," to name a few, are events in themselves. Like the city of Rome-which crops up not as a trope, but as lived experience-they compact their weathering layers of moral, political, sexual, and intellectual history (Bagg's own) into an intensely immediate consciousness."
James Scully

"Bagg is an exceptional poet-capable de tout, as Cocteau says the poet should be... No other poet today has found so true, so credible a voice for erotic obsession and the attraction of danger."
Richard Wilbur

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