Willis Barnstone
Following the Chinese dictum, "Paintings are silent poems," Marc Hofstadter bequeaths the canvas word.


Kim Addonizio
To read Marc Hofstadter's Visions is to feel you're walking through an intimate museum.


Book Description
Visions is a collection of poems inspired by twentieth-century paintings.


About the Author
Marc Elihu Hofstadter was born in New York city in 1945. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California at Santa Cruz, writing his doctoral dissertation on the late poetry and poetics of William Carlos Williams. He taught numerous classes at UC Santa Cruz, American literature and English language at the University of Orleans in France, and American literature at Tel Aviv University in Israel. He received a second Master's degree in Library and Information Studies from the University of California at Berkeley, and for the past eighteen years has worked as the librarian of the San Francisco Municipal Railway, the city of San Francisco's transit agency. His first poetry collection, House of Peace, was published by Mother's Hen in 1999, and his poetry, translations, and critical articles have appeared widely in literary magazines.