On love : poems / by Edward Hirsch.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Hirsch, Edward.

Contributor:

• Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

• Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 86 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.

Summary:

Poems on subjects ranging from the writer, Kafka, to the loneliness of the Prairies. In Ocean of Grass, he writes: "Think of her sometimes when you pace the earth, / our mother, where she was laid to rest. / The ground was holy, but the wind was harsh / for those who drowned in an ocean of grass."

Contents:

• Blue hydrangea
• The poet at seven
• Ocean of grass
• Iowa flora
• American summer
• Days of 1968
• The burning of the midnight lamp
• Orphic rites
• The unnaming
• Hotel window
• Idea of the holy
• Two (scholarly) love poems
• A painting of Pan
• A fundamentalist
• Husband and wife
• Prologue
• Denis Diderot
• Giacomo Leopardi
• Heinrich Heine
• Charles Baudelaire
• Margaret Fuller
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• George Meredith
• Lafcadio Hearn
• Oscar Wilde
• Tristan Tzara
• Guillaume Apollinaire
• Milena Jesenska
• D.H. Lawrence
• H.D.
• Federico García Lorca
• Robert Desnos
• Gertrude Stein
• Dr. X
• Bertolt Brecht
• Marina Tsvetaeva
• Zora Neale Hurston
• Oscar Ginsburg
• Paul Valéry
• Colette.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Other Format:

Online version: Hirsch, Edward. On love.

ISBN:

• 0375402535
• 9780375402531

OCLC:

37966506

Online:

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description