Losses of Life

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Losses of Life is comprised of two long poems:

The first, Child of Man, derived from Emerson’s journals, letters, and essays, is an elegy for the death of Emerson’s son Waldo.

The second, Stations, is a sequence of poems exploring losses of a different sort.

Eric Hoffman’s sharp-eyed and agile poems are teeming with surprise

(Patrick Pritchett)

and

deserve to be better and more widely-known (Eileen Tabios).

The quality of the verse… is undeniable; there are great pleasures to be had in Hoffman’s lines (Jason Ranek).

His poetry manifests a restless and manifold creativity, a creativity Emerson himself would have saluted (Anthony Rudolf).