Contemporary poets: 30 Michael Hofmann
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Your support makes all the difference.Born in Germany in 1957, Michael Hofmann grew up in Britain and the US. He has translated several novels and plays, and published two collections of poems: Nights from the Iron Hotel (1983); and Acrimony (1986), about his relationship with his father, novelist Gert Hofmann. His new book of poems is due out in the autumn
SERIAL
The salad man
working six dollars an hour
nights
fisherman
frequenter of prostitutes
paroled killer
boasting
over in the night bakery
mystery trips
some catch
Miss Trippi
down on the Genesee River
when the police found him
parked on the bridge
the white parka
alone in his car
sitting eating a salad
the body
Miss Cicero
troubling
the creek below.
This is the last in the current series of contemporary poets; a new series will follow later in the year
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