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Acrimony
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Acrimony
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Michael Hofmann
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:80 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 196,Width 130 |
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| Category/Genre | Poetry by individual poets |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780571145287
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| Classifications | Dewey:821.914 |
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| Edition |
Main
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Faber & Faber
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| Imprint |
Faber & Faber
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| Publication Date |
9 April 2001 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Acrimony touches on personal and political watersheds and examines various kinds of patrimony. It is characterized by a drastic honesty, and rhythmic force.Michael Hofmann's first book, Nights in the Iron Hotel, established him as a force to be reckoned with.
Author Biography
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).
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