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Earthly Measures : Poems By Edward Hirsch
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hirsch, Edward
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
- Summary:
- Edward Hirsch's strong, arresting poems have been praised from the start of his career.Of his second book, Wild Gratitude, Robert Penn Warren said, "I am convinced that the best poems here are unsurpassed in our time".This, his fourth collection, contains his finest work.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- 1
- Uncertainty
- Four A.M.
- Orpheus: The Descent
- In the Midwest
- Man on a Fire Escape
- Devil's Night
- In the Midnight Hour
- The Romance of American Communism
- Scorched
- In Memoriam Paul Celan
- Simone Weil: The Year of Factory Work (1934-1935)
- Away from Dogma
- Sortes Virgilianae
- 2
- Pilgrimage
- From a Train
- Unearthly Voices
- The Renunciation of Poetry
- Roman Fall
- The Watcher
- The Reader
- The Blue Rider
- The Italian Muse
- Traveler
- Orpheus Ascending
- The Welcoming
- 3
- Summer Surprised Us
- Apostrophe
- Blunt Morning
- Solstice
- Luminist Paintings at the National Gallery
- Posthumous Orpheus
- Art Pepper
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Nebraska, 1883
- First Snowfall: Intimations
- At the Grave of Wallace Stevens
- Earthly Light
- Notes
- A Note About the Author
- Other Books by This Author.
- Notes:
- Preliminaries omitted.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-307-76061-8
- OCLC:
- 1156091726
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