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On Love

By Edward Hirsch

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On Love

By Edward Hirsch

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"Life has to have the plenitude of art," Edward Hirsch affirms in his fifth volume of poems, On Love, which further establishes him as a major artist. From its opening epigraph by Thomas Hardy and an initiating prayer for transformation, On Love takes up the subjects of separateness and fusion, autonomy and blur. The initial progression of fifteen shapely and passionate lyrics (including a sonnet about the poet at seven, a villanelle about the loneliness of a pioneer woman on the prairie, and an elegy for Amy Clampitt) opens out into a sequence of meditations about love. These arresting love poems are spoken by a gallery of historical figures from Denis Diderot, Heinrich Heine, Charles Baudelaire, and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Gertrude Stein, Federico Garcia Lorca, Zora Neale Hurston, and Colette. Each anatomizes a different aspect of eros in poems uttered by a chorus of historical authorities that is also a lone lover's yearning voice. Personal, literary, On Love offers the most formally adept and moving poetry by the author Harold Bloom hails as utterly fresh, canonical, and necessary.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
96
Release Date:
2000-01-25
Publication Date:
2000-01-25
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0375702601
ISBN13:
9780375702600
Weight:
127 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
202 cm
Thickness:
8 cm
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