“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 of Lighthead
Early/Late: New and Selected Poems draws from Philip Fried's previous four collections of poetry. These highly praised books explored such themes as the tribulations of a vulnerable deity and the intersection of personal myth and historical moment. The new poems, in a section titled "The Emanation Crunch," are haunted by the current financial turmoil and possessed by the disembodied voices that multiply in our world of simulacra.
Richard
Hoffman is author of the poetry collections Without Paradise and Gold
Star Road, winner of the 2006 Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and the
New England Poetry Club’s Sheila Motton Book Award, as well as the
short-story collection Interference & Other Stories and the memoir
Half the House. He teaches at Emerson College and currently serves as
Chair of PEN New England.
Philip Fried is a New York-based poet and editor.
His poems have been widely published in journals and have appeared in
many anthologies, including Salmon: A Journey in Poetry, Poetry: Poems
1981 - 2007 and Poetry After 9-11: An Anthology of New York Poets.
In addition to being a poet, Fried is the founding editor of The
Manhattan Review, an international poetry journal that critics have
called 'excellent' and 'lively.' He collaborated with his wife, the
fine-art photographer Lynn Saville, on a volume combining her nocturnal
photographs with poetry from around the world: Acquainted with the Night.
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