Sightseer

Part travelogue, part epistle, and part reclamation of the very idea of tourism. Sightseer is a powerful collection of poems that makes a subtle and profound argument about the nature of travel, dislocation, and belonging.

The Rumpus

Hoffman’s genius for the visual—the tourist’s eye turned poet’s eye—manifests itself in every poem. … [Yet] Sightseer is not just an image-rich and beautiful book but a socially aware book, wisely and subtly political.

On the Seawall

A book of immense historic and personal power.

Chiron Review

Sightseer is that rarity: a first book so mature, so intelligent, so wittily and deftly written that it seems not to be a first book at all.

Carolyn Forché