{"product_id":"second-empire","title":"Second Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis debut's spare, delicate poems explore ways we experience the afterlife of beauty while ornately examining lust, loss, and identity. Drawing upon traditions of amorous sonnets, these love-elegies desire an artistic and sexual connection to others--other times, other places--in order to understand aesthetic pleasures the speaker craves. Distant and formal, the poems feel both ancient and contemporary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRichie Hofmann \u003c\/b\u003eis the winner of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e. A graduate of the Johns Hopkins University MFA program, he is currently a Creative Writing Fellow in Poetry at Emory University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Richie Hofmann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53080139038986,"sku":null,"price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/Screenshot2026-05-20at15.29.38.png?v=1779283811","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/second-empire","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}