Hirsch, Edward

Earthly measures : poems by Edward Hirsch( Book )

11 editions published between 1994 and 2003 in English and Undetermined and held by 621 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Speaks of the nightmare of abandon and decay; "From a Train (Hofmannsthal in Greece)" is the poet's compelling view of a timeless landscape; "The Italian Muse" is a meditation on Henry James in Rome; "Luminist Paintings at the National Gallery" beautifully evokes the sense of nineteenth-century American countryside. There is an argument about transcendence in these poems, an evocation of American spaces and European landscapes, a quest for reconciliation to the earth as

The making of a sonnet : a Norton anthology by Edward Hirsch( Book )

10 editions published between 2007 and 2009 in English and held by 607 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Traces the development of the sonnet through more than five centuries, evaluating its rise and fall throughout history as well as the numerous ways in which esteemed poets interpreted the sonnet form

The night parade by Edward Hirsch( Book )

17 editions published between 1989 and 2010 in English and held by 527 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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 his Eastern European roots and Chicago upbringing into enlightened, richly detailed verse that artfully side-steps sentimentality

On love : poems by Edward Hirsch( Book )

13 editions published between 1998 and 2008 in English and held by 514 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Poems on subjects ranging from the writer, Kafka, to the loneliness of the Prairies. In Ocean of Grass, he writes: "Think of her sometimes when you pace the earth, / our mother, where she was laid to rest. / The ground was holy, but the wind was harsh / for those who drowned in an ocean of grass."

My lost poets : a life in poetry by Philip Levine( Book )

3 editions published between 2016 and 2018 in English and held by 450 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Essays, speeches, and journal entries from one of our most admired and best-loved poets that illuminate how he came to understand himself as a poet, the events and people that he wrote about, and the older poets who influenced him. In prose both as superbly rendered as his poetry and as down-to-earth and easy as speaking, Levine reveals the things that made him the poet he became. In the title essay, originally the final speech of his poet laureate year, he recounts how as a boy he composed little speeches walking in the night woods near his house and how he later realized these were his first poems. He wittily takes on the poets he studied with in the Iowa Writing Program: John Berryman, who was his great teacher and lifelong friend, and Robert Lowell, who was neither. His deepest influences--jazz, Spain, the working people of Detroit--are reflected in many of the pieces. There are essays on Spanish poets he admires, William Carlos Williams, Wordsworth, Keats, and others. A wonderful, moving collection of writings that add to our knowledge and appreciation of Philip Levine--both the man and the poet"--

Transforming vision : writers on art( Book )

8 editions published in 1994 in English and held by 420 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

For the sleepwalkers : poems by Edward Hirsch( Book )

9 editions published between 1981 and 1998 in English and held by 395 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Collected poems by Galway Kinnell( Book )

3 editions published between 2017 and 2018 in English and held by 374 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The first complete showcase of "one of the true master poets of his generation," Galway Kinnell (1927-2014): a lifetime's work and a deeply lived life reflected in over two hundred poems"

Stranger by night : poems by Edward Hirsch( Book )

4 editions published in 2020 in English and held by 351 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"In his 70th birthday year, the award-winning poet looks back on what was and accepts what is, in a 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," 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 anti-war 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 midcentury 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 its opposite"--

The best American poetry, 2016( Book )

3 editions published in 2016 in English and held by 350 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Updated annually, and collected from electronic and print journals, an anthology showcases recent work from the best known and up-and-coming contemporary poets