Earthly Measures Poems
| Author/creator | Hirsch, Edward Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Knopf [Imprint] New York : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Westminster : Random House, Incorporated [Distributor] |
| Description | 96 p. 08.400 x 05.800 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from ProQuest One Literature - U.S. Customers Only |
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| Summary | Annotation 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. From gritty, apocalyptic views of the urban Midwest to brilliantly empathetic portrayals of Simone Weil and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the range of poems is at once wide and subtle. "In the Midwest" speaks of the nightmare of abandon and decay; "From a Train (Hofmannsthal in Greece)" is the poet's compelling view of a timeless landscape; "The Italian Muse" is a meditation on Henry James in Rome; "Luminist Paintings at the National Gallery" beautifully evokes the sense of nineteenth-century American countryside. There is an argument about transcendence in these poems, an evocation of American spaces and European landscapes, a quest for reconciliation to the earth as it is. Hirsch's work, as Anthony Hecht has said, "has not only thecourage of,its strong emotions, but the language and form that makes and keeps them clear and true". |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780679765660 |
| ISBN | 0679765662 (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780679765660 |
| Stock number | 00008064 |
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