About Daniel Hoffman
Daniel Gerard Hoffman was an American poet, essayist, and academic. He was appointed the twenty-second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1973. In 1954, Hoffman published his first collection of poetry, An Armada of Thirty Whales. Hoffman won the Hazlett Memorial Award in 1984. He won the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry from The Sewanee Review in 2003. He won the 2005 Arthur Rense Poetry Prize "for an exceptional poet" from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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