Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext For sixty years Daniel Hoffman has enchanted readers with his powerful imagination! drawing on a lifetime of experiences. The poems in Next to Last Words illumined by the poet s unique vision and leavened by touches of humor give lasting pleasure. Equally skilled in formal and free verse! Hoffman explores our place in the cosmos! our kinship with nature! the violent history through which we must live! and in love and in grief the intensities of life.

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For sixty years Daniel Hoffman has enchanted readers with his powerful imagination, drawing on a lifetime of experiences. The poems in Next to Last Words illumined by the poet s unique vision and leavened by touches of humor give lasting pleasure. Equally skilled in formal and free verse, Hoffman explores our place in the cosmos, our kinship with nature, the violent history through which we must live, and in love and in grief the intensities of life.