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Edward Hirsch's Strong, Arresting Poems Have Been Praised From The Start Of His Career. Of His Second Book, Wild Gratitude, Robert Penn Warren Said, I Am Convinced That The Best Poems Here Are Unsurpassed In Our Time. This, His Fourth Collection, Contains His Finest Work. From Gritty, Apocalyptic Views Of The Urban Midwest To Brilliantly Empathetic Portrayals Of Simone Weil And Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, The Range Of Poems Is At Once Wide And Subtle. In The Midwest. 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. It Is. Hirsch's Work, As Anthony Hecht Has Said, Has Not Only The Courage Of Its Strong Emotions, But The Language And Form That Makes And Keeps Them Clear And True. Uncertainty -- Four A.m. -- Orpheus: The Descent -- In The Midwest -- Man On A Fire Escape -- Dev

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Author

Edward Hirsch

Publisher

Knopf; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781299925564

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Body Mind & Spirit, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.82 / 5 (57 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14