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==Edward Hirsch== | ==Edward Hirsch== | ||
Edward Hirsch’s work is full of wonder and joy and brings others to knowing, understanding, and loving poetry. His poetry collections include most recently The Living Fire and Special Orders. He is also the author of the prose volumes The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration; Responsive Reading; the national bestseller How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry; and Poet's Choice, which collects two years' worth of his weekly essay-letters that ran in Washington Post Book World. In 2008, he was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. | Edward Hirsch’s work is full of wonder and joy and brings others to knowing, understanding, and loving poetry. His poetry collections include most recently ''The Living Fire'' and ''Special Orders''. He is also the author of the prose volumes ''The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration''; ''Responsive Reading''; the national bestseller ''How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry''; and ''Poet's Choice'', which collects two years' worth of his weekly essay-letters that ran in ''Washington Post Book World''. In 2008, he was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. | ||
==Review and Excerpt== | ==Review and Excerpt== | ||
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From The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems 1975-2010 © 2010 by Edward Hirsch, published by Alfred A Knopf. Used with permission. | From ''The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems 1975-2010'' © 2010 by Edward Hirsch, published by Alfred A Knopf. Used with permission. | ||
[[Category: Public programs]] | [[Category: Public programs]] | ||
[[Category: O.B. Hardison Poetry Series]] | [[Category: O.B. Hardison Poetry Series]] | ||
Latest revision as of 15:26, 17 October 2014
For the O.B. Hardison Poetry Series 2010, Edward Hirsch read from his work in the Folger's Elizabethan Theatre on September 8th, 2010. Poet Judith Harris introduced Edward Hirsch and moderated the conversation.
Edward Hirsch
Edward Hirsch’s work is full of wonder and joy and brings others to knowing, understanding, and loving poetry. His poetry collections include most recently The Living Fire and Special Orders. He is also the author of the prose volumes The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration; Responsive Reading; the national bestseller How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry; and Poet's Choice, which collects two years' worth of his weekly essay-letters that ran in Washington Post Book World. In 2008, he was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Review and Excerpt
Read Edward Hirsch's poem Fall.
Listen to Hirsch reading his poem, "Lay Back the Darkness."
From Summer Surprised Us
These first days of summer are like the pail
of blueberries that we poured out together
into the iron sink in the basement—
A brightness unleashed and spilling over…
From The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems 1975-2010 © 2010 by Edward Hirsch, published by Alfred A Knopf. Used with permission.