{"product_id":"the-bronze-arms-poems-hardcover","title":"The Bronze Arms: Poems - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichie Hofmann\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFollowing his captivating and popular \u003ci\u003eA Hundred Lovers, \u003c\/i\u003e Hofmann's new collection is a queer coming-of-age, tinged with myth: poems that bring us into a fever dream of antiquity and desire at its limits\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRecognizing the fragility of the body and soul in a world of threat, these startling poems stem from a central boyhood memory--the author's near-drowning in a swimming pool on Crete. The observant child was troubled that none of the statues he saw had arms--and then it was his father's arms lifting him from the water, saving his life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHofmann balances elegance and brutality as he explores the fables of that childhood as well as the contours of sex and relationships in modern cities, in order to write his own personal history of love and survival: \"Masculine arms lifted me. \/ Masculine arms held me while I slept.\" The poems navigate risks, abandonments, and rescues, moving through a series of mazes that become a labyrinth of erotic awakening, with quick turns and dangerous diversions. In poems that alternately sear and crush delicately, we wander the ruins where the self is lost and broken and ultimately reclaimed: at the dark center, in the heart of the past. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA triumphant follow-up to the fetching catalog of lovers in Hofmann's last book, this collection thrills with its archaeology of self, its notes of austerity and decadence.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRICHIE HOFMANN is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His poetry appears in two previous books, \u003ci\u003eA Hundred Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e (2022) and \u003ci\u003eSecond Empire \u003c\/i\u003e(2015), and in \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Yale Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.3 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 10, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53062934528307,"sku":"9780593804742","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/mHfk3J86nd9780593804742.webp?v=1771445096","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-bronze-arms-poems-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}