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Poet's Choice
Edward Hirsch
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9780151013562 Hardcover
015101356X
$25.00
448pages
Available
Trim Size:
6 x 9
Copyright Year:
2006
Territory:
US, C, O
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Edward Hirsch began writing a column in the Washington Post Book World called "Poet's Choice" in 2002. This book brings together those enormously popular columns, some of which have been revised and expanded, to present a minicourse in world poetry; Poet's Choice includes the work of more than 130 poets-from Asia and the Middle East to Europe and America, from ancient times to the present-and demonstrates how poetry responds to the challenges of our modern world. Rich, relevant, and inviting, the book reveals how poetry both puts us in touch with ourselves and connects us to each other.
I don't want to go on being a root in the dark,
Insecure, stretched out, shivering with sleep,
Going on down, into the moist guts of the earth,
Taking in and thinking, eating every day.
I don't want so much misery.
I don't want to go on as a root and a tomb,
Alone under the ground, a warehouse with corpses,
Half frozen, dying of grief.
-from "WALKING AROUND" by PABLO NERUDA,
translated by ROBERT BLY
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Biography |
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Edward Hirsch is the author of six books of poems and three books of prose, among them the national bestseller How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry. He has received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Prix de Rome, and a MacArthur Fellowship, and is president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He lives in New York.
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Literary Criticism- Poetry
Poetry- Anthologies (multiple authors)
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Academic Disciplines & Course Studies |
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English Language & Literature- American Literature
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English Language & Literature- Poetry
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Serial/Audio/UK/Translation: Harcourt
Performance: Author
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Harcourt Books
An imprint ofHarcourt Trade Publishers
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Harcourt Education Company
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