Earthly Measures
Poems
$29.19
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
27 February 1996
Summary
“These are poems of immense wonder and rigor. To say that they are religious poems is only to recognize their grandeur and generosity, and their heart-breaking longing.”-Patricia Hampl, The New York Times Book Review”With Earthly Measures, Edward Hirsch breaks through the ring of fire and captures his Muse. The voice is now uncannily his own; uncanny because we believe we have heard it before, yet the accents are unearthly and utterly fresh. Like his poem on Art Pepper, this voice also hears …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679765660 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0679765662 |
| Author: | Edward Hirsch |
| Publisher: | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Imprint: | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 27 February 1996 |
| Weight: | 179g |
| Dimensions: | 213mm x 147mm x 7mm |
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About The Author
Edward Hirsch
Edward Hirsch has published five previous books of poems-For the Sleepwalkers(1981),Wild Gratitude(1986), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award,The Night Parade(1989),Earthly Measures(1994), andOn Love(1998). He has also written three prose books, includingHow to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry(1999), a national best-seller, andThe Demon and the Angel- Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration(2002). A frequent contributor to the leading magazines and periodicals, includingThe New Yorker, DoubleTake,andAmerican Poetry Review,he also writes the Poet’s Choice column for theWashington Post Book World.He has received the Prix de Rome, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, and a MacArthur Fellowship. A professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston for seventeen years, he is now President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
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