The Night Parade : 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.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Straightforward and precise, these poems, almost exclusively in narrative form, beckon the reader with their immediacy. Gracefully confirming the inextricable links between self and family, Hirsch, winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award for Wild Gratitude , is, at his best, captivating, transforming tremendous respect for and fascination with his Eastern European roots and Chicago upbringing into enlightened, richly detailed verse that artfully side-steps sentimentality.

Contents:

My Grandmother's bed

My Grandfather's poems

Evening star

Homage of O'Keeffe

Incandescence at dusk

Skywriting

A short lexicon of torture in the eighties

And who will look upon our testimony

Birds-of-paradise

Siblings

My father's back

Execution

In the underground garage

For the new world

When skyscrapers were invented in Chicago

American apocalypse

Family stories

Rapture

Refusal

The abortion (1969)

A photograph ripped in half

Cemeteries by the sea

Cross portrait

Infertility

Proustian.

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

ISBN:

0-307-76142-8

OCLC:

843004509