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Michael Hofmann''s poems have been widely admired, notably 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 remarkable and 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''.

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"'Michael Hofmann is one of the best poets writing in English.' Helen Dunmore, The Observer"

Selected Poems

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      Publisher: Faber & Faber
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 06/03/2008
      ISBN13: 9780571237746, 978-0571237746
      ISBN10: 0571237746

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Michael Hofmann''s poems have been widely admired, notably 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 remarkable and 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''.

      Trade Review
      "'Michael Hofmann is one of the best poets writing in English.' Helen Dunmore, The Observer"

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