The Whole Nine Yards: Longer Poems

The Whole Nine Yards offers poems spanning the career of former Poet Laureate Daniel Hoffman. These explore violence and transcendence in realistic, gothic, and comic modes, as they tell of war, cold war, domestic violence, bureaucratic oppression, and a compassionate rescue at sea. Searching and lyrical suites celebrate the births of children, recoup a year in wartime France, and meditate on life and death, the seen and the unseen. Hoffman aims to share the pleasures of dramatizing language, theme, and form in dimensions new to his work. The result is a compelling collection from a distinguished poet.

Author: Daniel Hoffman
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 04/15/2009
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.10w x 0.23d
ISBN: 9780807134146

About the Author

Daniel Hoffman has published a dozen books of poetry, including Beyond Silence, his collected shorter poems, and Brotherly Love, a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has recently received 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. The best known of his six critical studies is 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. Hoffman lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, and on Cape Rosier in Maine.