Beyond Silence: Selected Shorter Poems, 1948-2003

by Daniel Hoffman

Book Overview

Accepting an award for poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Daniel Hoffman wrote, Amid private sufferings and outrage at the brutalities of public life, it is gaiety that sustains us, and love, and the imagination's power to create from both deprivation and delight. This collection embodies those emotions and that imaginative power. Hoffman's verse has always exulted in the resources of language, as sensuous in sound as in response...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807128619
• ISBN13: 9780807128619
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 9.5"