{"product_id":"a-hundred-lovers-poems-paperback","title":"A Hundred Lovers: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichie Hofmann\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn erotic journal in poems, from a rising star in the American poetry scene, author of the highly acclaimed collection \u003ci\u003eSecond Empire\u003c\/i\u003e. \"A book of love poems that consciously and subversively hearken back to Shakespeare's sonnets, marking Hofmann's position as one of our necessary poets of erotic desire.\" --Jericho Brown, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\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. Bringing 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRICHIE HOFMANN is the author of \u003ci\u003eSecond Empire\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), and his poetry has appeared recently in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Yale Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches at Stanford University and lives in Chicago and San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.3 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 28, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42725443829823,"sku":"9781524712051","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/27787ba9819837502b6f8aba5f2e75e2.webp?v=1765106586","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/a-hundred-lovers-poems-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}