Beyond Silence (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Daniel Hoffman
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Voyages, Politics, Twentieth century, Poetry or poets, Imagination, Idealism, Quest, Exploration or explorers, Epigrams
Beyond Silence: Selected Shorter Poems, 1948-2003 is a provocative collection of reflective poems. Arranged thematically rather than chronologically, the book precludes easy tracing of the poet’s growth; instead it allows the full force of the poet’s preoccupations and image clusters to affect the reader. “Thought tends to collect in pools,” Wallace Stevens said in his “Adagia,” and each of the sections in Beyond Silence is indeed a kind of thought-pool in which related ideas and images play off of one another beneath the surface, allowing glimmers of insight...
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