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Poem

Charm for 2020

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September 2020, no. 424
Poem

Charm for 2020

by •
September 2020, no. 424

Defend
                 Indefensible
                                  Defendant
Deafen
                 Defang
                                  Deferment
Deform
                 Deforest
                                  Defect
Defile
                 Deflower
                                  Defrock
Deface
                 Defame
                                  Deflect
Deflate
                 Defecate
                                  Befoul
Differ
                 Defunct
                                  Defund
Affray
                 Redefine
                                  District
Defy
                 Decry
                                  Decline
Diffract
                 Defray
                                  Defraud
Default
                 Deceit
                                  Deficit
Federal           
                 Afraid
                                  Duffer
Defeat
                 Defenestrate
                                  Degenerate
Disgrace
                 Dégueulasse
                                  Deglaze

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Michael Hofmann

Michael Hofmann was born in Germany and moved to England in 1961. Educated at Oxford and Cambridge, he has worked as a freelance writer, translator, and critic since 1983. His most recent poetry collection One Lark, One Horse was released in 2018. Nights in the Iron Hotel, his first book of poems, appeared in 1984. He is an influential and award-winning translator of writers such as Franz Kafka, Joseph Roth, and Herta Müller. In 2008 he was Poet in Residence in Queensland. Michael Hofmann's Selected Poems appeared with FSG and Faber. His Gottfried Benn translations, Impromptus, was released in 2013.

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