Brotherly Love Daniel Hoffman "An astonishing feat of historical
and literary imagination."--Monroe K. Spears, "Washington Post" "A
spectacular achievement which handles brilliantly the mysterious
relationship between spirit and flesh, history and vision, intent
and act, dream and reality."--Anthony Hecht "Hoffman's "Brotherly
Love" is his finest work, itself a trope of the city whose history
it makes myth of, and redeems, urbanizing the wilderness of history
and its fables. A grand poem in the American grain."--John
Hollander "A beautiful and important book which has the markings of
... a landmark in our culture."--Frederick Morgan "I have never
before seen such a connection between the historical and the
imaginative, nor have I encountered in many a long day such a
strong and pertinent lyricism within a larger dramatic
compass."--James Dickey "Though grounded firmly in historical fact,
"Brotherly Love"] is very original in conception and quite
effectively expresses the dreams and despairs of those who lived
this history as well as our own contemporary need to understand the
past as 'we clatter down the rigid rails' into the
future."--"Library Journal" "Brotherly Love" is a long poem that
evokes William Penn's luminous vision of America and shows what has
become of it as the intractable conflicts of our history--struggles
over the land, keeping faith with the Indians, the uses and abuses
of power--threaten Penn's ideal. Daniel Hoffman began writing
"Brotherly Love" while he was Poet Laureate of the United States,
in 1973-74 (the appointment then called Consultant in Poetry of the
Library of Congress). Widely hailed, the book was a finalist for
both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle
Award in 1981. It is adapted as the libretto for Ezra Laderman's
music in the oratorio "Brotherly Love," premiered by the
Philadelphia Singers in March 2000. Author of eight other books of
poetry, Daniel Hoffman has published several critical studies, of
which the best known may be "Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe," also a
finalist for the National Book Award. Hoffman taught for ten years
at Swarthmore College and then, for twenty-seven, at the University
of Pennsylvania, where he is Poet in Residence and Felix E.
Schelling Professor of English Emeritus. From 1988 to 1999, he
served as Poet in Residence of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine
in New York City and administered the American Poets' Corner. In
2004 he received the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry,
the seventeenth poet so recognized by "The Sewanee Review,"
America's oldest literary quarterly. Pennsylvania Paperbacks 2000
192 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 4 illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-1736-0 Paper
$17.95s 12.00 World Rights Poetry, American History Short copy: A
modern long poem, focusing on William Penn, Quaker origins of
American ideals, and subsequent history, Native American and
European American.
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