Publication

1999 - Faber and Faber, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

19,250 words, Guess

Page Count

77 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing529136
  • Goodreads769421

Classifications

  • DDC821/.914
  • LCCPR6058.O345 A67 1999

Description

"A number of the poems in Michael Hofmann's new collection show him returning to the subject of his father, the German novelist Gert Hofmann, whose relationship with his son was also the principal subject of his celebrated 1986 collection, Acrimony, and of a memorable television documentary that appeared at that time. In 1993, however, Gert Hofmann died, and the poems written since then replace the combativeness and acerbity of the earlier book with a more complex tone: frankness and factuality are still important elements, but they are tempered now by grief, pity, pain and bemusement."--Jacket.

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