N.M. Hoffman and Gloria Matuszewski continue their collaborations in tandem in this book of poetry and artwork from Kearns, Howard & Walker to be released in early 2023. The Chairs, like their impressive interpretation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s French poems, The Roses, will be designed by Élie Colistro in France. The Chairs poems are a departure in spirit and format for Hoffman, who generally writes in a longer idiom. They are a workmanlike visitation of Rilke’s controlled forms in The Roses that simultaneously lean for inspiration into Matuszewski’s commanding paintings devoted to the chair. The new book manifests the poet and the painter’s work in tandem as presented in numerous exhibitions over 25 years, among these in California at The Commonwealth Club and Marin Museum of Contemporary Art and in NYC at The Cornelia Street Café and Jadite Galleries.

Poetry. Art.