Description: In People Once Real, award-winning poet Richard Hoffman writes about history's cascading traumas and the resilience needed to survive them. By turns dissident, angry, tender, elegiac, and bracing, these are poems that help us see where we've been and where we need to go, by showing us where we are. --
Brief description: Richard Hoffman has published four previous books of poetry: Without Paradise; Gold Star Road, winner of The Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and the Sheila Motton Book Award from The New England Poetry Club; Emblem; and Noon until Night, which received the 2018 Massachusetts Book Award for Poetry. His other books include the celebrated memoirs Half the House and Love & Fury, the story collection Interference and Other Stories, and the essay collection Remembering the Alchemists and Other Essays. He is Emeritus Writer in Residence at Emerson College and Nonfiction Editor of Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices.