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Where Have You Been: Selected Essays

✍ Scribed by Hofmann, Michael

Book ID: 108696323
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 305 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780374259969

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✦ Synopsis

An adventure with a roving genius of literary criticism
Michael Hofmann--a poet, translator, and intellectual vagabond--has established himself as one of the keenest critics of contemporary literature. Safely nestled between the covers of Where Have You Been? , he offers a hand to guide us and an encouraging whisper in our ear, leading us on a trip through what to read, how to think, and why to like. And while these essays bear sharp insights that will help us revisit writers with a fresh eye, they are also a story of love between a reader and his treasured books.
In these twenty-five essays, Hofmann brings his signature wit and sustained critical mastery to a poetic, penetrating, and candid discussion of the writers and artists of the last hundred years. Here are the indispensable poets without which contemporary poetry would be unimaginable--Elizabeth Bishop, "the poets' poets' poet," the "ghostly skill" of Robert Lowell, and the man he...

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