Daniel Hoffman

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Daniel Hoffman


Born
in New York City, The United States
April 03, 1923

Died
March 30, 2013

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Daniel Hoffman served as Poet Laureate in 1973-74 (when the post was known as Consultant in Poetry of The Library of Congress). His first book, An Armada of Thirty Whales, was W. H. Auden's choice for the 1954 Yale Series of Younger Poets. Among its dozen successor volumes are Brotherly Love (1981), a nominee for both the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award; Beyond Silence: Selected Shorter Poems 1948-2003; and The Whole Nine Yards: Longer Poems (2009).

Best known of his critical studies is another National Book Award nominee, Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe (1972).

Among his distinctions, Hoffman received the Arthur Rense prize for poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2005, and, in 2003 from The Sewanee
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Average rating: 3.8 · 161 ratings · 20 reviews · 65 distinct works
Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe

3.92 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1972 — 19 editions
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Beyond Silence: Selected Sh...

3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions
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Form and Fable in American ...

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Zone of the Interior: A Mem...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2000
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The Poetry of Stephen Crane

3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1971 — 4 editions
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Darkening Water: Poems

3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions
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Next to Last Words: Poems

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions
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Brotherly Love

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PHR, SHRM-CP EXAM PREP & PR...

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Paul Bunyan: Last of the Fr...

3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1978 — 9 editions
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