Poetry
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Stranger by Night
Read More: Stranger by Night“Tender and unflinching . . . Hirsch balances heartfelt elegy with a celebration of the everyday. In these 48 poems of sensory remembrance, any door…
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100 Poems to Break Your Heart
Read More: 100 Poems to Break Your HeartAvailable now! Exciting conversations highlighting Edward Hirsch’s latest book. 100 Poems to Break Your Heart 100 of the most moving and inspiring poems of the…
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Gabriel a Poem
Read More: Gabriel a PoemLonglisted for the 2014 National Book Award Never has there been a book of poems quite like Gabriel, in which a short life, a bewildering…
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The Living Fire
Read More: The Living FireA comprehensive selection of one of our most beloved poet’s rich and significant body of work alongside a gathering of “brilliant, deeply pleasurable” new poems…
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Special Orders
Read More: Special OrdersIn these powerful and “achingly beautiful” (Booklist) poems of self-examination and openness from one of the cornerstones of the poetry world, Edward Hirsch assesses “the minor…
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Lay Back the Darkness
Read More: Lay Back the DarknessEdward 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…
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On Love
Read More: On Love“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…
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Earthly Measures
Read More: Earthly Measures“These are poems of immense wonder and rigor. To say they are religious poems is only to recognize their grandeur and generosity, and their heartbreaking…
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The Night Parade
Read More: The Night Parade“Edward Hirsch’s gifts include an emotional richness coupled with a precise sense of language and metaphor, which makes his best poems wonderful to read.” —Stephen…
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Wild Gratitude
Read More: Wild GratitudeWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, 1986 “This is a lovely and moving collection, and it has not only the courage…