Gold Star Road

by Hoffman, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780972830287
• ISBN10: 0972830286
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-01
• Publisher: Small Pr Distribution

Summary

Poetry. "With range, craft, and a dreadful curiosity about how human beings work, Richard Hoffman gives us GOLD STAR ROAD. Gold Star-an apt title for this collection, my hands-down favorite for the Barrow Street Prize 2006. Hoffman's poems tap into moments when civilization dissolves, not superficially, but at its emotional roots. Simply reading this book becomes an engaged, passionate experience. Time and again through the poet's weary irony comes the bite of life." -Molly Peacock. Richard Hoffman is the author of Half the House: A Memoir, and the poetry collection WITHOUT PARADISE. He is a Writer-in-Residence at Emerson College, and on faculty at the Stonecoast MFA Program, University of Southern Maine.

Author Biography

Richard Hoffman is Writer-in-Residence at Emerson College, and on faculty at the Stonecoast MFA Program, University of Southern Maine.

Table of Contents

Headache Clinic	p. 5
Bosnia Aftermath	p. 6
Refugee	p. 8
Without Wings	p. 9
The Judgment of Paris	p. 10
Gold Star Road	p. 11
Caesar	p. 15
Broadcast	p. 16
An Emblem from Dresden	p. 17
Humanities 101, an Essay	p. 19
Group Portrait	p. 21
A Bronze Star for Ssgt. Camilo Mejia	p. 22
Blog Pix: Fallujah	p. 23
School: A Memoir	p. 27
Summer Job	p. 29
Doorman	p. 30
Vocation	p. 31
Psalm	p. 32
Runt	p. 33
Blackbird	p. 34
Riverbank	p. 35
First Weekend in September	p. 36
Cove	p. 37
To S.	p. 38
Airfare	p. 39
Here Goes	p. 41
Pantoum: But You Are Gone	p. 42
Chesterfield	p. 43
December	p. 44
Miracle at Bethany	p. 45
Deja Vu	p. 46
Ars	p. 49
To an Embryonic Stem Cell	p. 50
Humility	p. 51
Vanitas	p. 52
Woodcut Parable, 15th C.	p. 53
Terms of Occupancy	p. 54
A Unit Deploys	p. 57
Gift	p. 58
Founders' Gallery	p. 59
Descending Moriah	p. 61
Materfamilias	p. 62
Suite: In Lieu of a Legacy	p. 63
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