A Hundred Lovers : Poems

✍ Scribed by Richie Hofmann

• Book ID: 111695554
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 241 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780593320990

✦ Synopsis

**An erotic journal in poems, from a rising star in the American poetry scene, author of the highly acclaimed collection Second Empire.

"A book of love poems that consciously and subversively hearken back to Shakespeare 's sonnets, marking Hofmann's position as one of our necessary poets of erotic desire. These short lyrics come together in their discussion of geography, painting, sculpture, and classical music as if to say that love (that queer love!) is indeed as immortal as a poem. Or as Hofmann himself writes, 'There is so much to say. It may take until night.'" --Jericho Brown, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Tradition**

A Hundred Lovers is a catalog of encounters, sublime, steamy, and frank. Inspired by French autofiction, the poems feel both sharp and diaristic; their lyrical, intimate world brings us everyday scenes imbued with sex. "Eros enters, where shame had lived,"...