Humans
- Tony Hoffman (author)
- Kevin William Reed (artist)
Page count
31Keywords
Poetry, Prose, Fiction, Essay, Memoir, Selections, Selected Works, Compilation, Chapbook, WoodblockPublication date
2013Language(s)
EnglishPublication media type
Print DocumentChapbook
Publication series
Unlimited EditionsThe Sword of Things
On these pages, I present a selection of my poems from recent years, ranging from the serious and reflective to the fantastical and absurd. Compiling this chapbook has refreshed my own sense of wonder at the power and versatility of language, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to share my work with those who may find it of interest. I call the middle section — which emerged out of a period of intensive freewriting — Tapestry, as it seeks to weave together a number of distinct threads. It’s not quite poetry nor fiction nor journaling nor essaying, yet it’s a little of all of them at once.
And in a way it’s a metaphor for my life, as I so often strive to reconcile seemingly disparate elements: the logical and the emotional, the spiritual and the scientific, the verbal and the inexpressible. — Tony Hoffman
About the Contributor(s)
Tony Hoffman lives in Queens and is a longtime denizen of Poetry Project workshops. He is the author of two self-published chapbooks, Heliopolis and Dilapidated Epiphany.
Kevin William Reed lives and works in Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY. He makes drawings and paintings that reflect the resilience of the natural world as it basks in the radioactive neon waves of urban intensity. A queer forest standing in the face of a fascist regime — the keepers of every technology known to man. A space to grow, release + return. Kevin William Reed is a wild horse in outer space.
