Gold Star Road

Gold Star Road arrives just as Americans begin to wake from a long sleep induced by a corrupt public language. These poems, in language both tender and fearless, bless and curse, praise, question, and grieve. Hoffman's second collection will gratify readers who long for an engagement serious enough to earn poetry its rightful stature and restore faith in its ability to voice the best of the American will. If we, as a nation, were truly able to speak to this moment, this is what we would say. With the publication of Gold Star Road, it is, in fact, what we have said.