HOGG His Increase and Revisions in Jerusalem, Toronto, Leningrad, Being the Compleat Discourses of a Contemplative Man’s Re-Creation.

by Callaghan, Barry

• ISBN13: 9781990773587
• ISBN10: 1990773583
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2025-10-01
• Publisher: Exile Editions

Summary

The great American poet, Hayden Carruth, wrote: “ The publication of the original ‘ Hogg Poems and Drawings’ edition was an event of signal importance, registered as such in the consciousness of readers throughout North America. To say the least, Hogg has become an extraordinary cultural personage in our conspectus.” This all-new double-volume edition – with poems refined and refreshed and added to over years, and a selection of original and new drawings – is the final presentation of Hogg brought up-to-date, with Hogg in Toronto, Jerusalem, and Leningrad. He sets out in the first book to seek redemption, such as he might hope to find it through a woman, in our world and times. Traveling toward the sun, he goes to Jerusalem where he anticipates the word would be Holy Holy Holy… And then in book two, again through love, he goes out into the world to enter a dark winter state of Russian police surveillance where he finds that the word is Ice Ice Ice. These two intense love stories, told in a range of rhythms and forms – these Hogg poems and Hogg drawings – comprise an existentialist epic without equal, indispensable in their moment: which always is now.

Author Biography

Barry Callaghan, of Toronto, is the well-known novelist, poet, and person of letters who has been included in every major Canadian anthology, and his fiction and poetry have been translated into seven languages. His works include When Things Get Worst, and Never’ s Just the Echo of Forever (both 2023), All the Lonely People, and Raise You on the River (both 2018), and among others: The Black Queen Stories, The Way the Angel Spreads Her Wings, A Kiss Is Still a Kiss, Barrelhouse Kings, Between Trains, and Beside Still Waters.

Table of Contents

HOGG: TOC +++ Skull Hill 4 Prologue 5 The Hatching of Hogg 6 Hogg Descending 7 Inside His Wooden Suit 8 On the Abu Gosh Road 9 Hogg Meets a Woman 11 The Worry Bead 12 The Gift of Tongue 14 And So To Bed 15 This Side of Bethlehem 16 The Fitting 17 Between Covers 18 Restless Stones 19 The Silver Hook 20 God Grows Smaller 21 Khamsin 22 Moonshine 23 Inquire Within 24 It Is My Heart 25 Himmler’ s Law 26 Seed Bed 28 Geulah 29 Mirror Mirror 30 The Emperor’ s Imperial Beak 31 On the Boulevard of B-flat in E 32 Not Me, Demosthenes 33 Here Comes the Sun 34 The Wall 35 Skull Hill 36 Birthday Suit Blues 37 La Petite Mort 38 Water Music I 39 Water Music II 40 Water Music III 41 Spider Dance 42 How We Are 43 The Mouth of the Wind 44 Hogg Sees Two Blind Men 45 At the Lazarus Stone 46 +++ Stone: Hogg’ s Drawings 49 Unnamed poem 50 +++ The Mayor Says It’ s a Whale of a City 67 Hogg Begins Again 68 Hogg, Pale Horseman 69 Hogg Aghast 70 The Whale-Belly 72 Wedding Bells 73 A Variation on Dü rer’ s Four Horsemen 74 Hell’ s Belle 75 Southbound Hogg Meets the Woman Northbound 76 Medusa Among the Moochers 77 Doctor Ded 78 Pentecost 80 Sesephus the Crack King 81 Hogg Dreams Veronica 83 Hogg Sees the Sun Rise 84 Hogg Eight to the Bar 85 The Wrong Shoe I 87 The Wrong Shoe II 88 The Wrong Shoe III 89 Hogg Performs a Café Variation of Apolinaire’ s The Poet Assassinated 90 John the Conqueroo 91 Downtown Divination 93 Judas Priest 94 Ramble On 98 Hogg Meets the Noseless Slut Again 99 Out of the Tomb Sheets 101 Hogg’ s Epilogue 103 +++ Stone: Hogg’ s Drawings 105 Unnamed poem 106 Unnamed poem 108 +++ Seven Last Words 110 Tsvetayeva epigraph 111 Travel 112 1: Not a Thorn, Not a Tree 113 2: Air, Air, Air 114 3: Ice Fishing 116 4: The Astoria Hotel 117 5: Unnamed Poem 118 6: A Stolen Kiss 119 7: Salomé and the Giraffes 120 8: Great Peter 121 9: Bread 122 10: Sleepwalker 123 11: Amputated Love 124 12: Teeth Drawing 125 13: Stones 126 14: The Old Believer 127 15: Salt 128 16: Foundling 129 17: Ambush 130 18: Carpe Diem 131 19: Café Society 132 20: Stigmata 133 21: Snowflakes 134 22: At the Beach 135 23: One Spring Morning 136 24: On Nevsky Prospect 137 25: Canticle 139 26: Heartbeat 140 27: Stasis 141 28: Another Laughter 142 29: Hunger 143 30: Teeth Drawing 144 31: Champagne 145 32: Promise of Rain 146 33: The Exile 148 34: Akhmatova In Fontanka House 149 35: Hogg on 96 Point 6 in the Land of H 150 36: At Dostoievsky’ s Grave 151 37: The Acrobat 152 38: Cradle Song 153 39: Rasputin I 154 40: Teeth Drawing 155 41: Rasputin II 156 42: Mother 157 43: Incontinence 158 44: A Cold Child 159 45: Fie! Pah! 160 46: Potemkin’ s Paper 161 47: Moving 162 48: x, the Starting Number 163 49: Tear 164 50: Mon Grand Guignol 165 51: Fathers and Songs I & II 166 52: Osip Mandelstam Moves His Lips 167 53: At the Winter Palace I 168 54: A Blown Kiss 169 55: At the Winter Palace II 170 56: In an Orchard 171 57: The Eyes Have It 172 58: Teeth Drawing 174 59: Puppy Love 175 60: There Is No Lenin But Lenin 176 61: Hogg Meets Isaac Babel 177 62: Of Things to Come 178 63: The Flautist 180 64: Crosstree 181 65: In Our Cul-de-Sac 182 66: Hogg Goes to the Movies 183 67: The Evening News 184 68: Waiting 185 69: Wheels 186 70: The Grinder 187 71: Fire and Water 188 72: The Shoes Have It 189 73: Space 190 74: Escape Route 191 75: In a Minor Key 192 76: Shearing 193 77: Unnamed poem 78: As Time Goes By 195 79: Don’ t Look Back 196 80: As Close As We Came 197 81: Marina 198 82: So It Was Done 199 83: Seven Last Words 200 +++ Hogg’ s Notes