How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry - Hardcover

Hirsch, Edward

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151004196 ISBN 13: 9780151004195

Publisher: Harcourt Brace International, 1999

Synopsis

According to Hirsch, poetry is not just a part of life - it is life, and expresses like no other art our most sublime emotions. In this book, he shows how to read a poem, covering verse by, among others, Sylvia Plath, Pablo Neruda and Wordsworth.'

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Review

"A lovely book, full of joy and wisdom."-The Baltimore Sun "Hirsch's contribution is significant, [grounded] in the obvious pleasure he has experienced through words. . . . Who could resist the wiles of this poetry-broker-a writer rapidly becoming the baby boomers' preeminent man of letters?"-Detroit Free Press "Laudable . . . The answer Hirsch gives to the question of how to read a poem is: Ecstatically."-The Boston Book Review

About the Author

EDWARD HIRSCH is a celebrated poet and peerless advocate for poetry. A MacArthur fellow, he has published nine books of poems and five books of prose. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Rome Prize, a Pablo Neruda Presidential Medal of Honor, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature. He serves as president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and lives in Brooklyn.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harcourt Brace International
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0151004196
• ISBN 13: 9780151004195
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352