Michael Hofmann
Photo: Jermimah KuhfeldMichael Hofmann’s annotated translation of Joseph Roth’s letters was just published by W.W. Norton; Impromptus, his Gottfried Benn translations, is expected later this year from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Translated By Michael Hofmann
- A Shadow on the Wall | Translator's Notes
- Asters | Translator's Notes
- Beautiful Youth | Translator's Notes
- Can Be No Sorrow | Translator's Notes
- Caryatid | Translator's Notes
- Contempt
- Divergences | Translator's Notes
- Dreams | Translator's Notes
- Evenings of Certain Lives | Translator's Notes
- Express Train | Translator's Notes
- Fragments 1953 | Translator's Notes
- Gladioli | Translator's Notes
- Hymn | Translator's Notes
- Jena | Translator's Notes
- Last Spring | Translator's Notes
- Left the House | Translator's Notes
- Little Aster | Translator's Notes
- Our Motorbike
- People Met | Translator's Notes
- Radio
- Spring
- Static Poems | Translator's Notes
- The Beggars | Translator's Notes
- The Young Hebbel | Translator's Notes
- They Are Human After All | Translator's Notes
- Think of the Unsatisfied Ones | Translator's Notes
- Threat | Translator's Notes
- Tonight
- Tracing | Translator's Notes
- Why Live Without Writing
Articles By MICHAEL HOFMANN
- A Dead Necktie
- Big Les!
Les Murray’s “black dog.” - Curried Dragon
Diagnosing a fractured family. - Disorder and Early Sorrow
A taste at the edge of memory. - Into the Abeyance
- Manifesto of the Flying Mallet
Second in a series of eight manifestos. - More Featherishly Purple
Ian Hamilton’s Collected Poems. - So Goddamn Glamorous
Frederick Seidel is a meat-slicing machine. - The Linebacker and the Dervish
Lowell stormed the literary world; while Bishop orbited its periphery. On closely reading their collected letters, a poet and critic uncovers a new way to read their mythologized friendship.
Audio & Podcasts
The Poetry Magazine Podcast-
The Dark Has No Teeth
Poems by D. Nurkse, Rae Armantrout, Averill Curdy, and Michael Hofmann, plus Tom Sleigh's take on Thom Gunn.
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Why Live Without Writing?
New poems from Robert Hass, Sam Willetts, and Martha Zweig, plus Michael Hofmann on German poet Durs Grünbein.
Biography
Michael Hofmann’s annotated translation of Joseph Roth’s letters was just published by W.W. Norton; Impromptus, his Gottfried Benn translations, is expected later this year from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
