Second empire
By: Richie Hofmann
Publisher: Alice James Books
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 69
ISBN-13: 9781938584169
Subjects: American poetry
Description: This debut's spare, delicate poems explore ways we experience the afterlife of beauty while ornately examining lust, loss, and identity. Drawing upon traditions of amorous sonnets, these love-elegies desire an artistic and sexual connection to others--other times, other places--in order to understand aesthetic pleasures the speaker craves. Distant and formal, the poems feel both ancient and contemporary.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.