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Edward Hirsch

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Born: January 19 1950

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Edward Hirsch is a celebrated poet and peerless advocate for poetry. He was born in Chicago in 1950—his accent makes it impossible for him to hide his origins—and educated at Grinnell College and the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a Ph.D. in Folklore. His devotion to poetry is lifelong.He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, a Pablo Neruda Presidential Medal of Honor, the Prix de Rome, and an Academy of Arts and Letters Award. In 2008, he was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
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Edward Hirsch’s first collection of poems, For the Sleepwalkers , received the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University and the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets. His second collection, Wild Gratitude , won the National Book Critics Award.
Since then, he has published six additional books of poems: The Night Parade , Earthly Measures ,On Love , Lay Back the Darkness , Special Orders , and The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems , which brings together thirty-five years of poems.Hirsch is also the author of five prose books, including A Poet’s Glossary , the result of decades of passionate study, Poet’s Choice , which consists of his popular columns from the Washington Post Book World, and How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry , a national bestseller. He is the editor of Theodore Roethke’s Selected Poems and co-editor of The Making of a Sonnet: A Norton Anthology . He also edits the series “The Writer’s World” .Edward Hirsch taught for six years in the English Department at Wayne State University and seventeen years in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston. He is now president of the
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

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Edward Hirsch

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Books from Edward Hirsch

Complete Poems and Selected Letters

How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry

Best American Poetry 2016

Poet's Choice

Special Orders: Poems

A Poet's Glossary

100 Poems to Break Your Heart

Wild Gratitude

The Living Fire

The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration

Earthly Measures: Poems

Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems

Everything is Going to be All Right: Poems for when you really need them

Agnes Martin: The Nineties and Beyond

Reading the Water (Morse Poetry Prize)

Kenyon Review, Nov/Dec 2018

شب آخر با سیلویا پلات : مقالاتی در باب شعر و شاعری

Gabriel: Un poema

Theodore Roethke: Selected Poems

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