{"title":"Richie Hofmann","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"hundred-lovers-book-richie-hofmann-9781524712051","title":"A Hundred Lovers","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49749127528721,"sku":"NGR9781524712051","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50387004653841,"sku":"CIN1524712051VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51033680445713,"sku":"NIN9781524712051","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1524712051.jpg?v=1751118243"},{"product_id":"hundred-lovers-book-richie-hofmann-9780593320983","title":"A Hundred Lovers","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn erotic journal in poems, from a rising star in the American poetry scene, author of the highly acclaimed debut collection\u003ci\u003e Second Empire\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Hundred Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e is a catalog of encounters, sublime, steamy, and frank. Inspired by French autofiction, the poems feel both sharp and diaristic; their lyrical, intimate world brings us everyday scenes imbued with sex. Eros enters, where shame had lived, the speaker observes, as the poems explore risk and appetite, promiscuity and violence, and, in the wake of his marriage, questions about monogamy and desire. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBringing us both the carefully knotted silk ties of the wedding pair and their undress in a series of Hockney-like interiors where passion colors every object, Hofmann speaks plainly of the saliva, tears, and guts of the carnal, just as he does of the sublime in works of art. \u003ci\u003eA Hundred Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e invites us to consider our own memories of pleasure and pain, which fill the generous white space the poet leaves open to us between his ravishing lines.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49864357839121,"sku":"CIN0593320980VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49975110762769,"sku":"GOR013826963","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52312476221713,"sku":"CIN0593320980G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0593320980.jpg?v=1751230865"},{"product_id":"second-empire-book-richie-hofmann-9781938584169","title":"Second Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe delicate arc of these poems intimates--rather than tells--a love story: celebration, fear of loss, storm, abandonment, an opening forth. Richie Hofmann disciplines his natural elegance into the sterner recognitions that matter: 'I am a little white omnivore, ' the speaker of \u003ci\u003eSecond Empire \u003c\/i\u003ediscovers. Mastering directness and indirection, Hofmann's poems break through their own beauty.--Rosanna Warren\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis debut's spare, delicate poems explore ways we experience the afterlife of beauty while ornately examining lust, loss, and identity. Drawing upon traditions of amorous sonnets, these love-elegies desire an artistic and sexual connection to others--other times, other places--in order to understand aesthetic pleasures the speaker craves. Distant and formal, the poems feel both ancient and contemporary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAntique Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe sky was crazed with swallows.\u003cbr\u003eWe walked in the frozen grass\u003cbr\u003eof your new city, I was gauzed with sleep.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrees shook down their gaudy nests.\u003cbr\u003eThe ceramic pots were caparisoned with snow.\u003cbr\u003eI was jealous of the river, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehow the light broke it, of the skein\u003cbr\u003eof windows where we saw ourselves.\u003cbr\u003eWhere we walked, the ice cracked\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elike an antique book, opening\u003cbr\u003eand closing. The leaves\u003cbr\u003ebeneath it were the marbled pages. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichie Hofmann \u003c\/b\u003eis the winner of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e. A graduate of the Johns Hopkins University MFA program, he is currently a Creative Writing Fellow in Poetry at Emory University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50025109618961,"sku":"CIN1938584163G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51055227765009,"sku":"NIN9781938584169","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1938584163.jpg?v=1750771397"},{"product_id":"bronze-arms-book-richie-hofmann-9780593804742","title":"The Bronze Arms","description":"After the holidays, the year 1816, on the Great North Road between London and Edinburgh, the incorrigible Miss Pamela Pomeroy pesters her brother Paul into allowing her to take the reins of his spank-up-to-the-nines carriage and flighty team. A farmer s cart sends the high-strung horses into panic. Reins in hand, barely missing a large hog enjoying a mud bath in the middle of the road, Pamela manages to bring the runaways to a halt. A handsome, grinning, intriguing, farmer claims the pig. Always looking for a new challenge, Pamela vows to investigate this grinning farmer. He s no peasant, of that she is certain. Having endured more than their share of tragedy, Simon Lawrence and his sister find sanctuary and seclusion at Copeland Manor. Seclusion is all well and good if one needs a place to heal the body and soul. Thanks to Peg the pig, and the incorrigible Miss Pomeroy and her family, Simon and Audry are enlisted to rejoin the living. Leaving the past behind proves a very challenging, fulfilling exercise.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52435799376145,"sku":"NGR9780593804742","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53076284506385,"sku":"NIN9780593804742","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53092028875025,"sku":"CIN0593804740G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53384191901969,"sku":"CIN0593804740VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780593804742.jpg?v=1769685467"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-de\/collections\/autor-buecher-von-richie-hofmann.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}