Acrimony

Michael Hofmann

Acrimony by Michael Hofmann is the acclaimed poet and translator’s second book of poetry, focusing his unique sensibility and merciless vision on family relationships, whether between husband and wife or between son and father.

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Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571145287
Date Published
09.04.2001

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Summary

Acrimony touches on personal and political watersheds and examines various kinds of patrimony. It is characterized by a drastic honesty, and rhythmic force.

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Michael Hofmann was born in 1957 in Freiburg, Germany, and came to England in 1961. He has published four volumes of poems and won a Cholmondeley Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for poetry. His translations have won many awards, including the Independent‘s Foreign Fiction Award, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the P.E.N./Book of the Month Club Translation…

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