Who is Edward Hirsch
Edward Hirsch Edward M. Hirsch (born January 20, 1950) is an American poet and critic who wrote a national bestseller about reading poetry. He has published nine books of poems, including The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems (2010), which brings together thirty-five years of work, and Gabriel: A Poem (2014), a book-length elegy for his son that The New Yorker called "a masterpiece of sorrow." He has also published five prose books about poetry. He is president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memo...Read Full Biography
Edward Hirsch Poems
- Edward Hopper And The House By The Railroad (1925)
Out here in the exact middle of the day,
This strange, gawky house has the expression
Of someone being stared at, someone holding
His breath underwater, hushed and expectant; ... - Amour Honestus
The nights were long and cold and bittersweet,
And he made a song for the hell of it.
She stood by the window, a heavenly light ... - After A Long Insomniac Night
I walked down to the sea in the early morning
after a long insomniac night.
... - Branch Library
I wish I could find that skinny, long-beaked boy
who perched in the branches of the old branch library.
He spent the Sabbath flying between the wobbly stacks ... - To Poetry
Donâ??t desert me
just because I stayed up last night
watching The Lost Weekend.
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Comments about Edward Hirsch
- Parisreview: “we need poetry to keep expanding so that it can account for the actual lives that people are living.” —edward hirsch
- Ojalart: “we need poetry to keep expanding so that it can account for the actual lives that people are living.” —edward hirsch
- Stacyskl: 5 of 5 stars to gabriel by edward hirsch
- Jamainternalmed: 3 poems to make sense of what’s happening in our med centers, our communities, & the world - elizabeth bishop’s “one art” - marilyn chin’s “hospital in oregon” - edward hirsch’s “what the last evening will be like”
- Schmidt_reads: the "h" section of my poetry shelf gets all the love. heaney, herrick, hesiod, edward hirsch, homer, housman. then keats. if it weren't for dante, dickinson, donne...would i ever leave the "h"? i think not
