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Lay Back the Darkness
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 15.00Edward Hirsch?s sixth collection is a descent into the darkness of middle age, narrated with exacting tenderness. He explores the boundaries of human fallibility both in candid personal poems, such as the title piece?a plea for his father, a victim of Alzheimer?s wandering the hallway at night?and in his passionate encounters with classic poetic texts,... more...
On Love
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 15.00"Life has to have the plenitude of art," Edward Hirsch affirms in his fifth volume of poems, On Love , which further establishes him as a major artist. From its opening epigraph by Thomas Hardy and an initiating prayer for transformation, On Love takes up the subjects of separateness and fusion, autonomy and blur. The initial progression of fifteen... more...
Special Orders
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 16.00In Special Orders, the renowned poet Edward Hirsch brings us a new series of tightly crafted poems, work that demonstrates a thrilling expansion of his tone and subject matter. It is with a mixture of grief and joy that Hirsch examines what he calls ?the minor triumphs, the major failures? of his life so far, in lines that reveal a startling frankness... more...
The Night Parade
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00Straightforward and precise, these poems, almost exclusively in narrative form, beckon the reader with their immediacy. Gracefully confirming the inextricable links between self and family, Hirsch, winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award for Wild Gratitude , is, at his best, captivating, transforming tremendous respect for and fascination with... more...
The Living Fire
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 21.00A rich and significant collection of more than one hundred poems, drawn from a lifetime of ?wild gratitude? in poetry. In poems chronicling insomnia (?the blue-rimmed edge / of outer dark, those crossroads / where we meet the dead?), art and culture (poems on Edward Hopper and Paul Celan, love poems in the voices of Baudelaire and Gertrude Stein,... more...
Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 16.00'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death,' John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 as he started writing the blankverse epic Hyperion. Today he endures as the archetypal Romantic genius who explored the limits of the imagination and celebrated the pleasures of the senses but suffered a tragic early death. Edmund Wilson counted... more...
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