Description
| Product ID: | 9780571327393 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | IT |
| Title: | Nights in the Iron Hotel |
| Authors: | Author: Michael Hofmann |
| Page Count: | 48 |
| Subjects: | Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 'You move the fifty-seven muscles it takes to smile,' Hofmann writes in a poem whose subject is sexual tension - and immediately the reader recognises a world in which emotions are not the usual poetic counters but something truer, more complex and more painful. Michael Hofmann, a much-praised contributor to Poetry Introduction 5, was born in Germany in 1957 but brought up in Britain. Nights in the Iron Hotel, which won the author a Cholmondeley Award in 1984, is his first full-length volume. Hofmann''s poems are marked by a classical authority, a formidable ironic intelligence, wide-ranging subject matter and a unique tone of voice. ''You move the fifty-seven muscles it takes to smile,'' |
| Imprint Name: | Faber & Faber |
| Publisher Name: | Faber & Faber |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2016-01-21 |
