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"item_title" : "Losses of Life",
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"item_description" : "Losses of Life is comprised of two long poems: The first, Child of Man, derived from Emerson's journals, letters, and essays, is an elegy for the death of Emerson's son Waldo.The second, Stations, is a sequence of poems exploring losses of a different sort.Eric Hoffman's sharp-eyed and agile poems are teeming with surprise(Patrick Pritchett) and deserve to be better and more widely-known (Eileen Tabios).The quality of the verse... is undeniable; there are great pleasures to be had in Hoffman's lines (Jason Ranek).His poetry manifests a restless and manifold creativity, a creativity Emerson himself would have saluted (Anthony Rudolf).",
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Overview
Losses of Life is comprised of two long poems:
The first, Child of Man, derived from Emerson's journals, letters, and essays, is an elegy for the death of Emerson's son Waldo.
The second, Stations, is a sequence of poems exploring losses of a different sort.
Eric Hoffman's "sharp-eyed and agile" poems are "teeming with surprise"
(Patrick Pritchett)
and
"deserve to be better and more widely-known" (Eileen Tabios).
"The quality of the verse... is undeniable; there are great pleasures to be had in Hoffman's lines" (Jason Ranek).
His poetry manifests a "restless and manifold creativity, a creativity Emerson himself would have saluted" (Anthony Rudolf).
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781947980112
- ISBN-10: 1947980114
- Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil
- Publish Date: January 2018
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.15 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.23 pounds
- Page Count: 62
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