Michael Hofmann
Subtitle: Selected Poems
Publisher: Faber & Faber, Limited; Faber and Faber
Published: 2008
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780571237746
Subjects: Poetry (poetic works by one author)
Description: Michael Hofmann's poems have been noted for their gift of compressed and vividly pointed reportage, and the collision course of words and dictions that his poetry characteristically provokes. His subject matter has been equally individual, including his complex series of 'father-poems', his subtle portraiture of the lives of others, East and West, together with his acerbic impressionism of contemporary England, and his exploration of Adorno's injunction that 'it is part of morality not to be at home in one's home'.