Beyond Silence: New and Selected Poems, 1948-2003

Daniel Hoffman. Louisiana State University Press, $49.95 (248pp) ISBN 978-0-8071-2860-2

The former poet laureate (when the job was called ""Consultant in Poetry""), Daniel Hoffman was also a Yale Younger Poet and is now professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania. Beyond Silence: Selected Shorter Poems 1948-2003 excludes his longer and two book-length poems, and arranges these lyrics thematically, with the hope ""that they will each give pleasure.""

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