Description
- Kind: Perfectbound
- Pages: 84
- Language: English
- Published: April 2013
- ISBN: 978-1-933675-96-1
Praise
The poems presented in this collection represent over a decade of work, including poetry previously published in long out-of-print and difficult to find chapbooks and self-published collections, newly revised for this edition, uncollected poems from obscure journals and ezines, and a selection of new poems. Together, they present the development of a singular voice and vision in poetry.
The particularities of a deeply felt life are brought into focus in Eric Hoffman’s lovingly and carefully worked language – its handsome and quiet music, set down as a tangible event within the flow of time. –Burt Kimmelman
Excerpt
The angel of history is propelled
on the storm winds of catastrophe –
The voices recovered,
the voices redeemed –
That lost, Adamic tongue,
secretly beneath all language,
whose presence makes possible
the impossible
act of translation –
Perhaps
the greatest philosopher
is the collector of books,
the frequenter of emporiums
and arcades, of
illuminations,
the precisions of hermetic symbolism,
of white magic –
Waiting has a way
of keeping one alive,
an initiative aimed at a miracle,
an infinite amount
but not for us –
Author
ERIC HOFFMAN is the author of ten volumes of poetry, the most recent being THE AMERICAN EYE (2011) published by Dos Madres Press, and of OPPEN: A NARRATIVE (2013), a critical study of poet George Oppen, published by Shearsman. Together with Dominick Grace, he co-edited two volumes of the University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Comic Artists series, DAVE SIM: CONVERSATIONS and CHESTER BROWN: CONVERSATIONS (both 2013). He lives in Connecticut.
