{"product_id":"stranger-by-night-poems-paperback","title":"Stranger by Night: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEdward Hirsch\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow in his seventies, the award-winning poet looks back on what was and accepts what is, in a deeply moving and beautiful sequence about what sustains him\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeginning with \"My Friends Don't Get Buried,\" the lament of a delinquent mourner as his friends have begun to die, and ending with the plaintive note to self \"don't write elegies\/anymore,\" Edward Hirsch takes us backward through the decades in these memory poems of startling immediacy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe recalls the black dress a lover wore when he couldn't yet know the tragedy of her burning spirit; the radiance of an autumn day in Detroit when his students smoked outside, passionately discussing Shelley; the day he got off late from a railyard shift and missed an antiwar demonstration. There are direct and indirect elegies to lost contemporaries like Mark Strand, William Meredith, and, most especially, his longtime compatriot Philip Levine, whom he honors in several poems about daily work in the late mid-century Midwest. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the poet ages and begins to lose his peripheral vision, the world is \"stranger by night,\" but these elegant, heart-stirring poems shed light on a lifetime that inevitably contains both sorrow and joy.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEDWARD HIRSCH, a MacArthur Fellow, has published nine previous books of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eThe Living Fire: New and Selected Poems \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGabriel: A Poem, \u003c\/i\u003ea book-length elegy for his son. He has also published seven books of prose, among them \u003ci\u003eHow to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry, \u003c\/i\u003e a national best seller, and \u003ci\u003e100 Poems to Break Your Heart\u003c\/i\u003e. He has received numerous prizes, including the National Book Critics Circle Award. A longtime teacher, at Wayne State University and in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston, Hirsch is now president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He lives in Brooklyn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.8 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47352024531193,"sku":"9781524711702","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/MWJxZnEzTUNKUmRTMjAyY1pkS2grQT09.webp?v=1769805418","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/stranger-by-night-poems-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}