Description
- Kind: Perfectbound
- Pages: 58
- Language: English
- Date Published: August, 2015
- ISBN: 978-1-939929-38-9
Praise
“Eric Hoffman’s poems deserve to be better and more widely-known.” —Eileen Tabios – Galatea Resurrects
“[Hoffman’s] poems are sharp-eyed and agile and teeming with surprise.” —Patrick Pritchett – Writing the Messianic
“The quality of the verse… is undeniable; there are great pleasures to be had in Hoffman’s lines.” —Jason Ranek – Smartish Pace
Excerpt
12
We are in a savage state
despite our fair-sounding words,
the noble plumage of genius –
All we have are exertions
and some sleep –
Laughter that wounds all memory, a little death
Author
Eric Hoffman is the author of Oppen: A Narrative, a biography of poet George Oppen, and eleven collections of poetry, including By the Hours, The American Eye, and Life At Braintree, all published by Dos Madres Press. Together with Dominick Grace, he has edited three volumes of the University Press of Mississippi’s Conversations with Comic Artists series, Dave Sim: Conversations, Chester Brown: Conversations, and Seth: Conversations. He lives in Connecticut with his wife Robin and son Sailor.