
Nights in the Iron Hotel
by Michael Hofmann
Title:
Nights in the Iron Hotel
Author:
Michael Hofmann
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
48 pages
Publisher:
Faber and Faber Ltd
ISBN-13:
9780571327393
EAN:
9780571327393
Classifications:
Poetry
Weight (g):
196
Dimensions (mm):
133 x 198 x 6
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
Michael Hofmann, a much-praised contributor to Poetry Introduction 5, was born in Germany in 1957 but brought up in Britain. Nights in the Iron Hotel, which won the author a Cholmondeley Award in 1984, is his first full-length volume. Hofmann's poems are marked by a classical authority, a formidable ironic intelligence, wide-ranging subject matter and a unique tone of voice. 'You move the fifty-seven muscles it takes to smile,' Hofmann writes in a poem whose subject is sexual tension - and immediately the reader recognises a world in which emotions are not the usual poetic counters but something truer, more complex and more painful. This quality of disenchantment is served by a deceptively laconic style of measured brio.












