"Richard Hague's fearless new collection, CONTINUED CASES, is a testimony to due diligence, no holds barred. Hague is a scholar, an archivist, a revealer of falsehoods, an instigator if you will, a soothsayer poet who is not afraid to use his gift for words as activism: '2,000 new chemicals / every year, vast spills; / of oil, billions of / fracking gallons poisoned and / lost to the water cycle.' Plain speak from a man who comes from 'noisy town, railroads, steel mills--cacophonies and cinders.' In this time of chaos, troglodytes, and naysayers, Hague is a man determined to use his passions to bring back some sense of duty, compassion, and honor to our fractured yet precious and beautiful world."
--Kari Gunter-Seymour, Ohio Poet Laureate, author of Alone in the House of My Heart

"In his latest collection, CONTINUED CASES, Dick Hague is unflinching in his acute and poignant poetic commentary on Americans and American society, thus providing an apt sequel to Public Hearings (Word Press, 2009). Drawing from vast lived experiences, as well as shrewd societal observations and lamentations, Hague offers his own State of the Union report in which he bemoans human stupidity and apathy, indicts inanity, and issues a call to immediate action. Indeed, as readers of Hague's work, we are called out. We are called out to pay attention to and heal our struggling planet, to counter nefarious 'alternative facts, ' to live lives centered on justice and peace. Without hyperbole, Hague's poetry proclaims, whether overtly or subtly, that future generations depend on us to do so. Now."
--Theresa Burris, Assistant VP of Community Engagement and Economic Development, Emory & Henry College