Entries from Jascha Hoffman tagged with 'poetry'

Erik Friedlander: Maldoror

[Brassland; 2003] Rating: 8.3 In 1846, Isidor Ducasse was born to a French consular official in Uruguay. By 1862, he had graduated from a French boarding school, where he's said to have excelled at arithmetic, drawing, and Latin verse...

Castro Alves: Brazil's Abolitionist Poet

If you're a kid in Bahia, Brazil, you are familiar with the bronze statue depicting slaves being whipped on top of the memorial theater bearing his name. When you memorize his poems in school, you learn that he's more...