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“What makes Hirsch so singular in American poetry is the balance he strikes between the quotidian and something completely other—an irrational counterforce, the ‘living fire’ that gives its name to his new selected poems…The everyday and the otherworldly temper each other in these excellent poems, and American poetry gains new strength as a result.”
Ten years in the making, A Poet’s Glossary (Harcourt, 2014) is a followup to former Academy Chancellor Edward Hirsch’ s best-selling book How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry (Harcourt, 1999). Readers called for an expansion of the book’s addendum of poetic terms, and Hirsch responded by creating an international and inclusive ...
Edward Hirsch is a celebrated poet and peerless advocate for poetry. He was born in Chicago in 1950—his accent makes it impossible for him to hide his origins—and educated at Grinnell College and the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a Ph.D. in Folklore.
28 de jul. de 2014 · In “Gabriel,” a book-length elegy, the poet Edward Hirsch confronts the loss of his son. “It’s so red hot, thinking about his life and what he might regard as appropriate for someone else ...
Born in Chicago, Edward Hirsch spent many years at the University of Houston teaching in the Graduate Creative Writing Program. He is currently president of the Guggenheim Foundation in New York City. He has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship, the MacArthur “Genius” Grant, and many other awards. He wrote How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry (1999), appropriate for ...
The Immense Intimacy, the Intimate Immensity. By Edward Hirsch. The experience of reading poetry and the kind of knowledge it provides cannot be duplicated elsewhere. The profound intimacy of lyric poetry makes it perilous because it gets so far under the skin, into the skin. “For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has ...
Edward Hirsch is the author of ten poetry books, most recently Stranger by Night (2020). His debut, For the Sleepwalkers, published in 1981 when he was thirty-one, won the Lavan Younger Poets Award. It was followed by 1986’s National Book Critics Circle Award– winning Wild Gratitude. These first collections set the stage for others, such as
