Edward Hirsch
Edward Hirsch
Edward Hirschis an American poet and critic who wrote a national bestseller about reading poetry. He has published nine books of poems, including The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems, which brings together thirty-five years of work, and Gabriel: A Poem, a book-length elegy for his son that The New Yorker calls “a masterpiece of sorrow.” He has also published five prose books about poetry. He is president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in New York City...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth20 January 1950
CountryUnited States of America
Edward Hirsch quotes about
There are a lot of poems where I am questing for God. I don't think there is any finding of God.
I'm so happy to be an advocate for poetry.
I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.
I'd say people do need some help with poetry because I think poetry just helps takes us to places that Americans aren't always accustomed to going.
I still feel that I'm capable of being as emotionally present as when I was young.
I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation.
I read a lot as a kid and in high school.
I like the machinery of poems, especially when they have human warmth.
I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it.
I found a comfort in trying to solve some poetic problems because there were human ones I just couldn't solve.
I come from Chicago, and the landscape of the Midwest has always meant a great deal to me.
I believe in rooting poems in actual places, even if you move into some other extraordinary realm.