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Gray https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f188f0b3db2bed6e94b5be/1740426107841-DH1CJGFEV6NH4PBKZIBB/THIS%2BALASKA%2BIMAGE.jpg Books - Make it stand out A book of subsistence and perseverance through an emotional winter. To live in an Alaska of the mind is to map the imagined cartography of winter on all that is physical. To dwell perpetually in a symbolic cold, and to emerge, with grace, unscathed. Originating from a premonition dream about the author’s friend committing suicide, the collection embodies the imagination’s reaction to trauma and the bereaved’s hyper-attentiveness to mortality. In its high lyricism, surrealism, and willingness to confront violence head-on, Carlie Hoffman's This Alaska reveals a speaker who, despite weathering a buried season, still treks toward the splintering light of life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f188f0b3db2bed6e94b5be/18142e11-21a1-48d3-9570-2109345c131f/Meerbaum-Eisinger+-+Song+of+the+Yellow+Asters+-+PROMO+COVER.jpg Books My translation of Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger’s Song of the Yellow Asters is out now with World Poetry Books. Order here. The life of Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, a cousin of Paul Celan, was cut short in a Nazi labor camp, but her poems survived to bear witness with lyric tenderness, resilience, and enduring humanity. Meerbaum-Eisinger collected her poems—alongside translations from French, Yiddish, and Romanian—written between the ages of 15 and 17, in a meticulously crafted handbound volume titled Blütenlese. Drawing on a rich folkloric and literary lineage from Verlaine to Rilke to Tagore, these 57 poems explore love, nature, and the human spirit under occupation and amid the Holocaust. Carlie Hoffman's new English translation returns Meerbaum-Eisinger to her rightful place among twentieth-century Eastern European poets who offered a living song of remembrance to the horrors of their era. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f188f0b3db2bed6e94b5be/1740454997354-FUGC1PU33WXNIOO58WV5/ACADEMY+LOGO.png Books - "Midmorning" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f188f0b3db2bed6e94b5be/1740455124721-A4FG70NAICJV2F43JM1X/LAR-Website-Logo.jpg Books - Four Poems https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f188f0b3db2bed6e94b5be/1740455195456-41WII3AKZVQLF1R6WQUG/jewish+currents.jpg Books - Three Poems https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f188f0b3db2bed6e94b5be/1740455333496-HRKWS1FQ0C9AMC059UMG/AllwhiteThe-Cortland-Review-Issue-88-Cover-Image.png Books - "Grief" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f188f0b3db2bed6e94b5be/1740455578250-GC8JEZF7KJMUKNYY9389/vasesfleurs-sf.jpeg Books - Vagabond City: Three Poems https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f188f0b3db2bed6e94b5be/1740455751687-AL0ZGSHIN9KCCHPUYSJM/bp-mid-logo-header_white2.jpg Books - Unprecedented Longing: Five Poems https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f188f0b3db2bed6e94b5be/1740455824927-NLMBQ4HZB37IZM2DSTNB/wax-seal%402x.png Books - Two Poems https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f188f0b3db2bed6e94b5be/1740455998430-CI2EE7GBB1ECF4AGGJ21/Arkansas%2BInt..jpg Books - "Late Afternoon" https://www.carliehoffman.com/translations daily 0.75 2026-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f188f0b3db2bed6e94b5be/1740446167854-E2WKB452MGKZSNG8R9AF/rose-auslaender-autorin-100-1920x1080.jpg Translation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f188f0b3db2bed6e94b5be/1740454493800-R73ER4GVKTIVA4JALBEX/SelmaMeerbaum-Eisinger_BioImage_0.png Translation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f188f0b3db2bed6e94b5be/1740456439658-85CPYN0TMP064U7QJ99T/white-shadows-anneliese-hager-and-the-camera-less-photograph-27.jpg Translation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f188f0b3db2bed6e94b5be/c8235908-9346-4d25-b4b3-233204ed9da5/auslander+photos.jpg Translation - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f188f0b3db2bed6e94b5be/c7a516ec-6783-4e1d-8822-0f363fb9024a/To+Life.jpg Translation - Make it stand out — by Rose Ausländer translated from the German by Carlie Hoffman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f188f0b3db2bed6e94b5be/1740447277637-E8V4KKFSZ70S1N6FH3SK/asymptote-logo.gif Translation - “Black Dove”; “Without a Visa” ; “Unity of Dust” Black dove midnight bring the sleepbranch after the daily flood —from Black Dove https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f188f0b3db2bed6e94b5be/1740450363027-8NZJLC19IPGKOTLT23Y5/nov2024-poetry-cover.jpg Translation - "A Day in Exile"; "Strangers"; "However" Shadows gathered around the oil light of the eternal lamp tell their stories along the walls with ten dark fingers —from A Day in Exile https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f188f0b3db2bed6e94b5be/1740447405025-A9HFHJ5HJVRDUAJVWFHT/FWB-Logo-2014.jpg Translation - “Blind Summer”; “My Nightingale”; “In the Dream” They are waiting for the dove’s mail delivered from a strange summer in the world —from Blind Summer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f188f0b3db2bed6e94b5be/1740506716491-F8WNZ5POZC3KR9KF1SR9/jewish+currents.jpg Translation - "To Life" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f188f0b3db2bed6e94b5be/18142e11-21a1-48d3-9570-2109345c131f/Meerbaum-Eisinger+-+Song+of+the+Yellow+Asters+-+PROMO+COVER.jpg Translation My translation of Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger’s Song of the Yellow Asters is forthcoming from World Poetry Books in March 2026. The life of Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, a cousin of Paul Celan, was cut short in a Nazi labor camp, but her poems survived to bear witness with lyric tenderness, resilience, and enduring humanity. Meerbaum-Eisinger collected her poems—alongside translations from French, Yiddish, and Romanian—written between the ages of 15 and 17, in a meticulously crafted handbound volume titled Blütenlese. Drawing on a rich folkloric and literary lineage from Verlaine to Rilke to Tagore, these 57 poems explore love, nature, and the human spirit under occupation and amid the Holocaust. Carlie Hoffman's new English translation returns Meerbaum-Eisinger to her rightful place among twentieth-century Eastern European poets who offered a living song of remembrance to the horrors of their era. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f188f0b3db2bed6e94b5be/1740454997354-FUGC1PU33WXNIOO58WV5/ACADEMY+LOGO.png Translation - "Midmorning" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f188f0b3db2bed6e94b5be/1740455124721-A4FG70NAICJV2F43JM1X/LAR-Website-Logo.jpg Translation - Four Poems https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f188f0b3db2bed6e94b5be/1740455195456-41WII3AKZVQLF1R6WQUG/jewish+currents.jpg Translation - Three Poems https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f188f0b3db2bed6e94b5be/1740455333496-HRKWS1FQ0C9AMC059UMG/AllwhiteThe-Cortland-Review-Issue-88-Cover-Image.png Translation - "Grief" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f188f0b3db2bed6e94b5be/1740455578250-GC8JEZF7KJMUKNYY9389/vasesfleurs-sf.jpeg Translation - Vagabond City: Three Poems https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f188f0b3db2bed6e94b5be/1740455751687-AL0ZGSHIN9KCCHPUYSJM/bp-mid-logo-header_white2.jpg Translation - Unprecedented Longing: Five Poems https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f188f0b3db2bed6e94b5be/1740455824927-NLMBQ4HZB37IZM2DSTNB/wax-seal%402x.png Translation - Two Poems https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f188f0b3db2bed6e94b5be/1740455998430-CI2EE7GBB1ECF4AGGJ21/Arkansas%2BInt..jpg Translation - "Late Afternoon" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f188f0b3db2bed6e94b5be/1740456439658-85CPYN0TMP064U7QJ99T/white-shadows-anneliese-hager-and-the-camera-less-photograph-27.jpg Translation - Make it stand out Preorder now. 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Hoffman’s poems brilliantly survey both how women have been flattened, misunderstood, and displaced throughout time and across disciplines, and how women have made themselves at home in their minds and within their specific histories. Approaching adaptation as a coping mechanism against perpetual exile, Hoffman recasts female archetypes as contemporary women, drawing a throughline between the narrative past and present circumstances. Persephone follows her captor “deeper inside the replica of girlhood,” and Eurydice in New Jersey “knew where she was going” as she made her way to death across “the parking lot and graveyard’s / fertile grass.” Rather than simply retelling a familiar tale, Hoffman’s poems illuminate mythology as a discourse with time and recognize solidarity between women as a conversation that continues beyond the grave. The timeless wisdom of this collection is how it unveils the constant and concurrent tragedies taking place everywhere around us while salvaging the irreducible pleasure of living from the wrecks of perception. Despite it all, we want to live. Perhaps, Hoffman seems to say, we were expelled from the garden not once but again and again, and, each time we exit, we go out searching for one more world like this world. “The apple’s a for-sale sign swaying from the tree,” she writes in the collection’s final poem “Borges Sells Me the Apple, Sells Me the World.” Or, to revisit the stage set in “Teaching the Persona Poem at Ramapo College of New Jersey,” “Outside the classroom window, snow falls, unencumbered / by a wind from nowhere the night Eurydice chooses to stay. https://www.carliehoffman.com/read-me daily 0.75 2025-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5052176b84aeb45fa5cfcc83/1377096507573-1MU42OOOOGIM9URAJ9D9/515c4225e4b0afec1218b21e.png Read Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5052176b84aeb45fa5cfcc83/1377096775448-0L7B4Q54H1VLOGFF1DPR/synthetica+%2820130821%29.jpg Read Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5052176b84aeb45fa5cfcc83/1377097104716-HDI53XJVV0DKZ24A3T68/51e453dee4b06abd3403c22e.png Read Me