Fiction. "If Anton Chekhov returned as a modern-day poet, Richard Hoffman would be his name. His poems reverberate with the same lucid witness and precision. Bridging histories local and cultural, they draw on literary traditions while simultaneously heralding experiment and invention. Both rooted and transcendent, EMBLEM is a marvelous new book."—Terrance Hayes
Author City: PORTLAND, ME USA
Richard Hoffman is the author of Without Paradise (Cedar Hill Publications, 2005), Half the House: A Memoir (New Rivers Press, 2005), Interference & Other Stories (New Rivers Press, 2009) and, most recently, EMBLEM (Barrow Street Press, 2011). His collection GOLD STAR ROAD won the 2006 Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and the 2008 Sheila Motton Award from the New England Poetry Club. He is Writer-in-Residence at Emerson College and currently serves as Chair of PEN New England.
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