Title: Approximately nowhere /
Authors: Hofmann, Michael, 1957 August 25-; Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library).
Publisher: Faber,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Loss (Psychology) Poetry
Abstract: "A number of the poems in Michael Hofmann's new collection show him returning to the subject of his father, the German novelist Gert Hofmann, whose relationship with his son was also the principal subject of his celebrated 1986 collection, Acrimony, and of a memorable television documentary that appeared at that time. In 1993, however, Gert Hofmann died, and the poems written since then replace the combativeness and acerbity of the earlier book with a more complex tone: frankness and factuality are still important elements, but they are tempered now by grief, pity, pain and bemusement."--Jacket.
Contents: Tea for My Father -- For Gert Hofmann, died 1 July 1993 -- What Happens -- Directions -- Last Walk -- Endstation, Erding -- Epithanaton -- Beatitudes -- Zirbelstrasse -- Still Life -- de passage -- Cheltenham -- Metempsychosis -- Essex -- Fidelity -- Ingerlund -- Parerga -- The Station Road, the Primrose Path -- Conversation -- Vecchi Versi -- Intimations of Immortality -- Kleist in Paris -- Rimbaud on the Hudson -- Masque -- Scylla and Minos -- The Log of Meleager's Life -- Hotel New York, Rotterdam -- One Line for Each Year of Life -- My Life and Loves -- Gone -- Vagary -- The Adulterer -- June -- Megrim -- Finita la Commedia -- Near Hunstanton -- Is It Decided -- Mayakovsky -- Seele im Raum -- XXXX -- Malvern Road -- Abscission -- Lewis Hollow Road -- Fou Rire -- Fairy Tale -- Gomorrah -- Summer -- Fucking -- et prope et procul -- Night Train -- Litany.