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Edward Hirsch is a poet, essayist, and literary critic who combines an evenness of tone and style with an urgency of message.
His verse expresses strong emotion without sentimentality, while his essays and criticism are lucid, generous, and original. In his volume of poetry, On Love, he imagines what various figures from the past (some well known, some unknown) would tell the reader about love. What results is perceptive, absorbing, and unique. He is the author of many volumes of poetry, including For the Sleepwalkers (1981), Wild Gratitude (1986), The Night Parade (1989), Earthly Measures (1994), On Love (1998), and Lay Back the Darkness (2003). He has also published two works of literary criticism, On Reading Poetry (1998) and The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration (2002). Hirsch has contributed essays, poems, and reviews to periodicals such as the New Yorker and the New Republic.
Biography
Hirsch is the president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He was previously a professor of creative writing at the University of Houston and an associate professor of English at the Wayne State University.
Hirsch received a B.A. (1972) from Grinnell College and a Ph.D. (1978) from the University of Pennsylvania.
Last updated January 1, 2005
Published on July 1, 1998
