Gold Star Road

Title: Gold Star Road
Author: Richard Hoffman
ISBN: 9780972830270
Publisher: Barrow Street Press
Published: 2007
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 74
Section: Poetry | American | General
Publisher Description: Poetry. With range, craft, and a dreadful curiosity about how human beings work, Richard Hoffman gives us GOLD STAR ROAD. Gold Star-an apt title for this collection, my hands-down favorite for the Barrow Street Prize 2006. Hoffman's poems tap into moments when civilization dissolves, not superficially, but at its emotional roots. Simply reading this book becomes an engaged, passionate experience. Time and again through the poet's weary irony comes the bite of life. -Molly Peacock. Richard Hoffman is the author of Half the House: A Memoir, and the poetry collection WITHOUT PARADISE. He is a Writer-in-Residence at Emerson College, and on faculty at the Stonecoast MFA Program, University of Southern Maine.