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A hundred lovers : poems / Richie Hofmann.
Van Pelt Library PS3608.O4798 H86 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hofmann, Richie, 1987- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Desire--Poetry.
- Desire.
- Genre:
- Gay poetry.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 55 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.
- Summary:
- "A gay man's erotic journal in poems, from a young and rising star in the poetry scene, author of the highly acclaimed debut collection Second Empire. A Hundred Lovers is a catalogue 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," he observes, as the poems explore risk and appetite, promiscuity and violence, and, in the wake of his marriage, monogamy. 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, every detail, Richie speaks plainly of the saliva, tears, and guts of the carnal, just as he does of the sublime in works of art. A Hundred Lovers 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Coquelicot
- Every Night
- Street of Dyers
- German Cities
- One Another
- Underground
- At the Rustic Hamlet Built in 1783 for Marie Antoinette, Last Queen of France
- Spring Wedding
- Historic District
- The Toilet of Venus
- Pink Room
- Edible Flowers
- City of Violent Wind
- History of Pleasure
- Mosquitoes
- Sarcophagus
- Blue Anther
- Weekend
- The Romans
- Summer and Fall
- Tiberius
- The Fables
- Quail
- The Arab Baths
- Under Limestone
- Things That Are Rare
- Beneath Our Skin
- Rilke Poem
- Looking at Medieval Art
- Cypress
- Linen
- Mummified Bird
- Museum
- September
- Bottoms Dream
- Opulence
- You Couldn't Lose Me
- Male Beauty
- Night and Day
- French Novel
- Pernod
- Feast Days.
- Notes:
- "This is a Borzoi Book"--Title page verso.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Hofmann, Richie, 1987- Hundred lovers.
- ISBN:
- 9780593320983
- 0593320980
- OCLC:
- 1246676087
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