The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems

The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems

Edward Hirsch
$21.00
Publication Date: September 20th, 2011
Publisher:
Knopf
ISBN:
9780375710032
Pages:
256
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Description

A comprehensive selection of one of our most beloved poet’s rich and significant body of work alongside a gathering of “brilliant, deeply pleasurable” new poems (Booklist).

About the Author

Edward Hirsch is the author of seven previous collections of poetry and four prose books. He has received numerous awards for his poetry, including a MacArthur fellowship and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and publishes regularly in a wide variety of magazines and journals. He serves as the president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and lives in New York City.

Praise for The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems

“The everyday and the otherworldly temper each other in these excellent poems, and American poetry gains new strength as a result.” —The New York Times Book Review