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Edward Hirsch
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March 2022
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Edward Hirsch
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Publisher
Knopf Publishing Group
Published
March 2022
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Now in his seventies, the award-winning poet looks back on what was and accepts what is, in a deeply moving and beautiful sequence about what sustains him
Beginning with "My Friends Don't Get Buried," the lament of a delinquent mourner as his friends have begun to die, and ending with the plaintive note to self "don't write elegies/anymore," Edward Hirsch takes us backward through the decades in these memory poems of startling immediacy. He recalls the black dress a lover wore when he couldn't yet know the tragedy of her burning spirit; the radiance of an autumn day in Detroit when his students smoked outside, passionately discussing Shelley; the day he got off late from a railyard shift and missed an antiwar demonstration. There are direct and indirect elegies to lost contemporaries like Mark Strand, William Meredith, and, most especially, his longtime compatriot Philip Levine, whom he honors in several poems about daily work in the late mid-century Midwest. As the poet ages and begins to lose his peripheral vision, the world is "stranger by night," but these elegant, heart-stirring poems shed light on a lifetime that inevitably contains both sorrow and joy.
Author
Edward Hirsch
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Knopf Publishing Group
Published
March 2022
Weight
69g
Dimensions
152 x 229 x 13 mm
ISBN
9781524711702
ISBN-10
1524711705
Eden Code
5584686
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Author/Creator: Edward Hirsch
ISBN: 9781524711702
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Release Date: March 2022
Weight: 69g
Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Eden Code: 5584686