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Acrimony

Acrimony

by Michael Hofmann (Author)

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Synopsis

Acrimony touches on personal and political watersheds and examines various kinds of patrimony. It is characterized by a drastic honesty, and rhythmic force.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 80
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 09 Apr 2001
ISBN 10: 0571145280
ISBN 13: 9780571145287
Book Overview: Acrimony by Michael Hofmann is the acclaimed poet and translator's second book of poetry, focusing his unique sensibility and merciless vision on family relationships, whether between husband and wife or between son and father.

Author Bio
Michael Hofmann was born in 1957 in Freiburg, Germany, and came to England in 1961. He has published four volumes of poems and won a Cholmondeley Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for poetry. His translations have won many awards, including the Independent's Foreign Fiction Award, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the P.E.N./Book of the Month Club Translation Prize. His reviews and criticism are gathered in Behind the Lines (2001). Ashes for Breakfast - his translations of the poetry of Durs Grunbein - appeared in 2005, and his Selected Poems was published in 2008.