Stranger by Night: Poems by Edward Hirsch

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Stranger by Night: Poems by Edward HirschNow 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 himBeginning with My Friends Dont Get Buried, the lament of a delinquent mourner as his friends have begun to die, and ending with the plaintive note to self dont write elegies anymore, Edward Hirsch takes us backward through the decades in these memory poems of startling immediacy.

This is a poet who is going places

National Book Critics Circle award-winning distinguished poet and critic Edward Hirsch describes why poetry matters and how we can open up our imaginations so that its message can make a difference

and artist working in theater

as a masterful crown of sonnets starts in Shanghai

pigeon holes

intensely personal search for beauty

musical arrangements

Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir

estrangement

One of the great American memoirs

which he drafted after moving to Fort Greene in 1938

as well as readers

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