The Bronze Arms: Poems

The Bronze Arms: Poems - Hardcover

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The Bronze Arms: Poems - Hardcover

The Bronze Arms: Poems - Hardcover

by Richie Hofmann
$29.00
$29.00

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by Richie Hofmann (Author)

Following his captivating and popular A Hundred Lovers, 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

Recognizing 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.

Hofmann 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.

A 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.

Author Biography

RICHIE HOFMANN is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His poetry appears in two previous books, A Hundred Lovers (2022) and Second Empire (2015), and in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, The New Republic, and The Yale Review.

Number of Pages: 96
Dimensions: 0.7 x 9.3 x 6.3 IN
Publication Date: February 10, 2026
ISBN9780593804742
Author Richie Hofmann
PublisherKnopf Publishing Group
GenreLiterature
FormatHardcover
PublishedFebruary 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages96
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Richie Hofmann is the winner of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, and Ploughshares. A graduate of the Johns Hopkins University MFA program, he is currently a Creative Writing Fellow in Poetry at Emory University.

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