Eric Hoffman is the author of several collections of poetry, including Losses of Life (2018) and The Transparent Eye (2016) (both Spuyten Duyvil), and PRESENCE OF LIFE (2018), FORMS OF LIFE (2015), BY THE HOURS (2013), and THE AMERICAN EYE (2011), published by Dos Madres Press. He is the author of Oppen: A Narrative , the biography of poet George Oppen (Shearsman, 2013, revised and expanded US edition Spuyten Duyvil, 2018), editor of Cerebus the Barbarian Messiah: Essays on the Epic Graphic Satire of Dave Sim and Gerhard (McFarland, 2012), co-editor (with Dominick Grace) of Approaching Twin Peaks: Essays on the Original Series (McFarland, 2017), The Canadian Alternative: Cartoonists, Comics, and Graphic Novels (2017), Seth: Conversations (2015), Chester Brown: Conversations (2013), and Dave Sim: Conversations (2013), with Grace and Jason Sacks of Jim Shooter: Conversations (2017), and with Nina Goss of Tearing the World Apart: Bob Dylan and the 21st Century (2017), all published by the University Press of Mississippi. He lives in Connecticut with his wife Robin and son Sailor. He lives in Connecticut with his wife Robin and son Sailor.
Presence of Life