Edward Hirsch
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Co
Pub. Date
©1999
Language
English
Description
An exploration of poetry and feeling, presenting poems selected by the author as emblematic because they suggest something crucial about the nature of poetry itself, and offering his insights on how the poems should be read.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
100 of the most moving and inspiring poems of the last 200 years from around the world, a collection that will comfort and enthrall anyone trapped by grief or loneliness, selected by the award-winning, best-selling, and beloved author of How to Read a Poem
Implicit in poetry is the idea that we are enriched by heartbreaks, by the recognition and understanding of suffering-not just our own suffering but also the pain of others. We are not so much...
Author
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In celebration of Library of America's 40th anniversary, Edward Hirsch offers deeply personal readings of forty essential American poems, ranging from Anne Bradstreet's "The Author to Her Book" and Phillis Wheatley's "To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works" to Garrett Hongo's "Ancestral Graves, Kahuku" and Joy Harjo's "Rabbit Is Up to Tricks" to explore how these poems have shaped his own life and how they might uplift our life as...
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"100 of the most moving and inspiring poems of the last 200 years from around the world, a collection that will comfort and enthrall anyone trapped by grief or loneliness, selected by the award-winning, best-selling, and beloved author of How to Read a Poem"--