Michael Hofmann, Michael Longley, Robin Robertson: Penguin Modern Poets Vol. 13

Penguin Modern Poets, Series II #13

by Michael Hofmann, Michael Longley, Robin Robertson

Volume 13 contain poems by Robin Robertson, Michael Hofman and Michael Longley. These writers combine a certain bleakness of vision with a lyrical quality.

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Michael Hofmann is a German-born, British-educated poet and translator. He is the author of two books of essays and five books of poems, most recently One Lark, One Horse. Among his translations are plays by Bertolt Brecht and Patrick Süskind; the selected poems of Durs Grünbein and Gottfried Benn; and novels and stories by, among others, Franz Kafka; Peter Stamm; his father, Gert Hofmann; and fourteen books by Joseph Roth. He has translated several books for NYRB Classics, including Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz, Jakob Wassermann’s My Marriage, and Gert Ledig’s Stalin Front, Kurt Tucholsky’s Castle Gripsholm, and edited The Voyage That Never Ends, an anthology of writing by Malcolm Lowry. He teaches in the English Department at the University of Florida.

He is the son of German novelist Gert Hofmann (1931-1993).