Next to Last Words: Poems - Softcover

Hoffman, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807150223 ISBN 13: 9780807150221

Publisher: LSU Press, 2013

Synopsis

For sixty years Daniel Hoffman has drawn on a lifetime of experiences to engage readers with his powerful imagination. The poems in Next to Last Words―illuminated by the poet’s unique vision and leavened by touches of humor―continue this tradition. Equally skilled in formal and free verse, Hoffman explores our place in the cosmos, our kinship with nature, the violent world in which we must live, and the intense love and grief common to everyone’s life.

About this title

About the Author:

Former poet laureate, Daniel Hoffman has published thirteen books of poetry, including The Whole Nine Yards, Beyond Silence, and Brotherly Love, a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His honors include the Arthur Anse prize for "a distinctive poet" from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and, from the Sewanee Review, the Aiken-Taylor Award for Contemporary American Poetry. He is the author of many critical studies, including Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe, also a National Book Award finalist. He has taught at Swarthmore College and at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is the Felix Schelling Professor of English Emeritus.

About this edition

• Publisher: LSU Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0807150223
• ISBN 13: 9780807150221
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 92