{"product_id":"earthly-measures-poems-paperback","title":"Earthly Measures: 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\"These are poems of immense wonder and rigor. To say that they are religious poems is only to recognize their grandeur and generosity, and their heart-breaking longing.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Patricia Hampl, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"With \u003ci\u003eEarthly Measures, \u003c\/i\u003e Edward Hirsch breaks through the ring of fire and captures his Muse. The voice is now uncannily his own; uncanny because we believe we have heard it before, yet the accents are unearthly and utterly fresh. Like his poem on Art Pepper, this voice also hears the chords of Stevens and Celan, but knows that 'play solo means going on alone, improvising.'\"\u003cbr\u003e --Harold Bloom \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Edward Hirsch is one of the finest poets we have! He has wonderful gifts to offer us: a strong, touching narrative voice; alert, mindful eye; the moral energy that informs his manner of writing and his choice of subjects; a desire to reach his readers, bring them into the world he observes, creates.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Robert Coles \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"I can't think of any contemporary whose poems have such an unfeigned urgency of feeling. At the same time, Hirsch's poems have a considered richness in them, and greatly repay rereading.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Richard Wilbur\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdward 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 the courage of its strong emotions, but the language and form that makes and keeps them clear and true\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdward Hirsch has published five previous books of poems: \u003ci\u003eFor the Sleepwalkers \u003c\/i\u003e(1981), \u003ci\u003eWild Gratitude \u003c\/i\u003e(1986), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, \u003ci\u003eThe Night Parade \u003c\/i\u003e(1989), \u003ci\u003eEarthly Measures \u003c\/i\u003e(1994), and \u003ci\u003eOn Love\u003c\/i\u003e(1998). He has also written three prose books, including \u003ci\u003eHow to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry \u003c\/i\u003e(1999), a national best-seller, and \u003ci\u003eThe Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration \u003c\/i\u003e(2002). A frequent contributor to the leading magazines and periodicals, including \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, DoubleTake, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review, \u003c\/i\u003ehe also writes the Poet's Choice column for the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World.\u003c\/i\u003e He has received the Prix de Rome, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, and a MacArthur Fellowship. A professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston for seventeen years, he is now President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.41 x 8.41 x 5.95 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 27, 1996\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53248422248755,"sku":"9780679765660","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/L_5DcHXLqh9780679765660.webp?v=1776311473","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/earthly-measures-poems-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}