Later as I looked at other languages I was keenly aware of words having a tactile quality, a closeness to the physical thing. There was an awareness, probably coming from WWI, that everything falls apart, but poetry lasts. It had to do with looking closely at things, with the translation of the visual world. So for us from the beginning poetry was connected with nature, and with a kind of religious feeling too- a traditional perspective I think, and very American. Her Aunt was a Canadian poet who lived very simply in a wilderness retreat called Abbey Dawn with her husband, a Canadian gunner in the RAF who was shot down over Germany in WWI, and after a long time in a German prison camp just wanted the life of a woodsman in the Great Lakes. My mother had a reverence for poetry and knew a great deal by heart, and we were trained to memorize at a young age and grew up with the Oxford Book of English Verse and American Verse as primary books in the house.
I realized in my teens that the only thing I was really interested in was poetry, and everything I did had to do with that. Ammons chose a poem by Hoffmann for The Best American Poetry 1994. He has published six books of non-fiction, three plays, and seven volumes of poetry, including two book length selections of his poems in Spanish and Russian translations. Hoffmann is also a writer, carving out his own land between poetry, philosophy, and science.
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