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Alicia Hoffman

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Originally from Pennsylvania, Alicia Hoffman now lives, writes, and teaches in Rochester, New York. Her poems have been widely published in a variety of journals, including The Penn Review, Tar River Poetry, SOFTBLOW, Radar Poetry, The Watershed Review, The Shore, The West Review, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University.

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	Liberty's Vigil, the Occupy Anthology: 99 Poets Among the 99% by Karla Linn Merrifield (Goodreads Author) (Editor and Contributor), Dwain Wilder (Editor and Contributor), Jennifer Ailles (Contributor) 4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bramble & Thorn by Nicci Mechler (Editor), Ashley Blake (Editor), Sally Rosen Kindred (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poets/Artists (Feb. 2011) by Rita Dove, Heather Bell (Poet), Alex Schmidt (Poet) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Animal 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Railroad Phoenix 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scissors and Spackle #5 by Ariana D. Den Bleyker (Goodreads Author), Alicia Hoffman (Goodreads Author), Amy Yolanda Castillo it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Birdsong: Poems in Celebration of Birds by Eric Rounds (Editor And Contributor), Bartlett White (Editor and Contributor), M.J. Iuppa (Contributor) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Bare Skin by Ashli Camille, Alicia Hoffman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lisa Barocio (Photographer) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Like Stardust In The Peat Moss really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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American Reich: A Murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and a New Age of Hate

by Eric Lichtblau

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The Poetry of W. B. Yeats: Gilded Pocket Edition (Arcturus Ornate Classics)

by W.B. Yeats

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Speak, Memory

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“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

[Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Nov. 1980), pp. 16-32]”
― Barbara Tuchman

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“In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.”
― C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism

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“Literature is news that stays news.”
― Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading

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“What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.”
― E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy

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“Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.”
― Romain Gary

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message 3: by Karla

Feb 20, 2013 09:24AM

Alicia! Great to be part of your reading world. Thanks! And thanks for rating my books! Ain't Goodreads grand?!

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message 2: by Alicia

Aug 25, 2012 02:51PM

Ned wrote: "Hi Alicia ! Welcome to good reads!

How is "Late In The Millennium" as a book?"

Hi ned! So far, so good - Stylistically, it's a bit of a mix between the tightly controlled narrative of Natasha Trethewey's Native Guard and the loose, slightly stream-of-consciousness poetics of Larry Levis - How are your assigned reads going?

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message 1: by Ned

Aug 25, 2012 12:15PM