Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1420110 in Books
• Published on: 2003-03-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 64 pages

From the Back Cover
James Hoch's A Parade of Hands is the work of a very gifted young poet for whom the lyric is both discovery and song. I'm drawn to his grave tones and graceful formal aptitude, in poems alternately hard as "steel piled in a yard" and mysterious as "a handful / of winged insects throbbing against glass." There is real peril here, not just the faux of melodrama one finds in much new poetry; and real experience -- of travel, of work, of loves found and lives lost. Each line of these excellent poems is real, worked-over, lucid. revealing, melodic, and true. -- David Baker

About the Author
James Hoch is Visiting Assistant Professor at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. Before teaching, he worked as a dishwasher, cook, dockworker, and social worker. His poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Gettysburg Review, Black Warrior Review, and Poetry Daily. His awards include a 2002 Fellowship from the PA Council on the Arts.

Customer Reviews

Hoch's Poetry Rings True
James is my teacher here at F and M, but that doesn't mean I'm doing some kind of guerilla reviewing. His poetry is actually worth the time it takes to write this review. Each poem from "A Parade Of Hands" is like a cosmic journey into a fragile and dreamy mindscape. I urge any poetry fans that come across this review to support the fantastic and incomparable James Hoch.