Wild Gratitude

“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.”

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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