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Edward Hirsch was born in Chicago in 1950 and educated at Grinnell College and the University of Pennsylvania. His first book of poems, For the Sleepwalkers (1981), received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets and the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University. His second book of poems, Wild Gratitude (1986), received the National Book Critics Circle Award. His third, The Night Parade (1989), and his fourth, Earthly Measures (1994), were both listed as notable books of the year by the New York Times Book Review. He writes frequently for leading magazines and periodicals--among them... Read More
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Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2001
Price: $16.00
'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death,' John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 as he started writing the blankverse epic Hyperion. Today he endures as the archetypal Romantic genius who explored the limits of the imagination and celebrated the pleasures of the senses but suffered a... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2001
Price: $16.00
'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death,' John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 as he started writing the blankverse epic Hyperion. Today he endures as the archetypal Romantic genius who explored the limits of the imagination and celebrated the pleasures of the senses but suffered a... Read more >
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Special Orders
Format: Hardcover, 80 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $25.00
In Special Orders, the renowned poet Edward Hirsch brings us a new series of tightly crafted poems, work that demonstrates a thrilling expansion of his tone and subject matter. It is with a mixture of grief and joy that Hirsch examines what he calls “the minor triumphs, the major failures” of... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 80 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $25.00
In Special Orders, the renowned poet Edward Hirsch brings us a new series of tightly crafted poems, work that demonstrates a thrilling expansion of his tone and subject matter. It is with a mixture of grief and joy that Hirsch examines what he calls “the minor triumphs, the major failures” of... Read more >
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Lay Back the Darkness
Format: Trade Paperback, 88 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $15.00
Edward 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 in candid personal poems, such as the title piece—a plea for his father, a victim of Alzheimer’s wandering the hallway at night—and in his passionate encounters... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 88 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $15.00
Edward 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 in candid personal poems, such as the title piece—a plea for his father, a victim of Alzheimer’s wandering the hallway at night—and in his passionate encounters... Read more >
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The Night Parade
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2003
Price: $15.00
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Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2003
Price: $15.00
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Earthly Measures
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: February 27, 1996
Price: $18.00
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Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: February 27, 1996
Price: $18.00
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On Love
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: January 25, 2000
Price: $15.00
"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 artist. From its opening epigraph by Thomas Hardy and an initiating prayer for transformation, On Love takes up the subjects of separateness and fusion, autonomy... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: January 25, 2000
Price: $15.00
"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 artist. From its opening epigraph by Thomas Hardy and an initiating prayer for transformation, On Love takes up the subjects of separateness and fusion, autonomy... Read more >
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Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 22, 2009
Price: $16.00
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Format: eBook
On Sale: July 22, 2009
Price: $16.00
Read more >
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Special Orders
Format: eBook, 80 pages
On Sale: January 21, 2009
Price: $25.00
In Special Orders, the renowned poet Edward Hirsch brings us a new series of tightly crafted poems, work that demonstrates a thrilling expansion of his tone and subject matter. It is with a mixture of grief and joy that Hirsch examines what he calls “the minor triumphs, the major failures” of... Read more >
Format: eBook, 80 pages
On Sale: January 21, 2009
Price: $25.00
In Special Orders, the renowned poet Edward Hirsch brings us a new series of tightly crafted poems, work that demonstrates a thrilling expansion of his tone and subject matter. It is with a mixture of grief and joy that Hirsch examines what he calls “the minor triumphs, the major failures” of... Read more >
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Lay Back the Darkness
Format: eBook, 88 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2008
Price: $15.00
Edward 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 in candid personal poems, such as the title piece—a plea for his father, a victim of Alzheimer’s wandering the hallway at night—and in his passionate encounters... Read more >
Format: eBook, 88 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2008
Price: $15.00
Edward 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 in candid personal poems, such as the title piece—a plea for his father, a victim of Alzheimer’s wandering the hallway at night—and in his passionate encounters... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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On Love
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2008
Price: $15.00
"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 artist. From its opening epigraph by Thomas Hardy and an initiating prayer for transformation, On Love takes up the subjects of separateness and fusion, autonomy... Read more >
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2008
Price: $15.00
"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 artist. From its opening epigraph by Thomas Hardy and an initiating prayer for transformation, On Love takes up the subjects of separateness and fusion, autonomy... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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The Living Fire
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $27.00
A rich and significant collection of more than one hundred poems, drawn from a lifetime of “wild gratitude” in poetry.
In poems chronicling insomnia (“the blue-rimmed edge / of outer dark, those crossroads / where we meet the dead”), art and culture (poems on Edward Hopper and Paul Celan, love poems in... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $27.00
A rich and significant collection of more than one hundred poems, drawn from a lifetime of “wild gratitude” in poetry.
In poems chronicling insomnia (“the blue-rimmed edge / of outer dark, those crossroads / where we meet the dead”), art and culture (poems on Edward Hopper and Paul Celan, love poems in... Read more >
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