{"id":60,"date":"2014-10-07T16:04:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T16:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/petercovino.com\/WPtest\/?p=60"},"modified":"2017-03-30T20:22:46","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T20:22:46","slug":"gold-star-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/book\/gold-star-road\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>GOLD STAR ROAD<\/em>, RICHARD HOFFMAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vertical-align:text-top alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/goldstarroa.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><strong>Barrow Street 2006 Prize Winner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In October 2009, The New England Poetry Club selected <em>Gold Star Road<\/em> for the Sheila Motton Award for the best book of poetry published in the past two years! Please see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nepoetryclub.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>http:\/\/www.nepoetryclub.org\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\"><input name=\"cmd\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"_s-xclick\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"B7MUTX9EGBSYN\"><input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_buynow_SM.gif\" type=\"image\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: none ! important;\" hidden=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/form>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With range, craft, and a dreadful curiosity about how human beings work, Richard Hoffman gives us <em>Gold Star Road<\/em>. Gold Star\u2014an apt title for this collection, my hands-down favorite for the Barrow Street Prize 2006. Hoffman\u2019s poems tap into moments when civilization dissolves, not superficially, but at its emotional roots. Simply reading this book becomes an engaged, passionate experience. Time and again through the poet\u2019s weary irony comes the bite of life. In short lyrics like \u201cRefugee,\u201d \u201cPsalm,\u201d and \u201cHumility,\u201d and in longer lyrics like \u201cFounder\u2019s Gallery\u201d and the title poem, \u201cGold Star Road,\u201d he makes the world seem, in the words of Wislawa Szymborska, whom he quotes: \u201cjust a room away.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Molly Peacock<\/p>\n<p><strong>Buy <em>Gold Star Road<\/em> (2007)online via our secure payment service, Paypal:<br \/>\nISBN: 9780972830270<\/strong><\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\"><input name=\"cmd\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"_s-xclick\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"B7MUTX9EGBSYN\"><input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_buynow_SM.gif\" type=\"image\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: none ! important;\" hidden=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/form>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barrow Street 2006 Prize Winner In October 2009, The New England Poetry Club selected Gold Star Road for the Sheila Motton Award for the best book of poetry published in the past two years! Please see http:\/\/www.nepoetryclub.org\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-book","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1256,"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/1256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}