“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 longing.” —Patricia Hampl, The New York Times Book Review Pages: 96 pages Publisher: Knopf (1994) Language: English ISBN-13: 978-0679765660 Amazon.com BarnesAndNoble.com Books-A-Million.com IndieBound.com Man on
In this unique and lavishly illustrated gift book, famous writers, including John Updike, Wallace Stevens, Joyce Carol Oates, and Philip Levine, contribute poems and prose—most never before published—on artworks found in one of the country's preeminent museums. Pages: 143 pages Publisher:The Art Institute of Chicago/ Bulfinch Press (1994) Language: English ISBN-13:978-0821221266 Amazon.com BarnesAndNoble.com Books-A-Million.com IndieBound.com
"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 Dobyns, New York Times Book Review Pages: 96 pages Publisher: Knopf (1989) Language: English ISBN-13: 978-0679722991 Amazon.com BarnesAndNoble.com Books-A-Million.com IndieBound.com My Grandmother’s Bed How she pulled
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, 1986 “This is a lovely and moving collection, and it has not only the courage of its strong emotions, but the language and form that makes and keeps them clear and true.” —Anthony Hecht Pages: 96 pages Publisher: Knopf (1986) Language: English ISBN-13: 978-0679722991 Amazon.com BarnesAndNoble.com
EDITORIAL REVIEWS "The poems of Edward Hirsch turn out to be exceptional. . . . These poems of wonder and consolation comment on the world, lovely and rapacious by turns, that we all inhabit." – Peter Stitt, The Georgia Review “A perfectly astonishing book.” – William Meredith “I’m reading these beautiful, original, haunting poems