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From unpoetic, scantly praising Critic Henry Louis Mencken, Poet Hoffenstein's first book, Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing, won the epithet "incomparable." The book was a refreshingly satirical draught from the Plutonian spring. Poet Hoffenstein's second book, Year In, You're Out, contains much the same kind of thing in much the same manner, but here is less satire, more lyric yearning. Again it is Poet Hoffenstein's sourer vein that suits him best...
...Poet Hoffenstein, still in his early 30's, went from Wilkes-Barre, Pa., to Manhattan in 1922, was dramatic critic on the Sun, columnist on the Herald-Tribune, press agent for Producer Al Woods. Now poetry supports him. Mild-miened, reg-ular-featured, carapace-bespectacled, Poet Hoffenstein thinks nothing ever happens to him, thinks his experience is common, that others will not admit it. Other books: Life Sings a Song, Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing...