Special Orders Poems

Name: Special Orders Poems
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ISBN: 9780307266811

ISBN-10: 0307266818

ISBN-13: 9780307266811

Edition: 2008

Authors: Edward Hirsch

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In "Special Orders," the renowned poet Edward Hirsch brings us a new series of tightly crafted poems, work that demonstrates a thrilling expansion of his tone and subject matter. It is with a mixture of grief and joy that Hirsch examines what he calls "the minor triumphs, the major failures" of his life so far, in lines that reveal a startling frankness in the man composing them, a fearlessness in confronting his own internal divisions: "I lived between my heart and my head, / like a married couple who can't get along," he writes in "Self-portrait." These poems constitute a profound, sometimes painful self-examination, by the end of which the poet marvels at the sense of expectancy and…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/11/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 80
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.50" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English




More Than Halfway


Special Orders


Cotton Candy


Branch Library


Playing the Odds


My Father's Track-and-Field Medal, 1932


Cold Calls


Second-Story Warehouse


The Swimmers


The Chardin Exhibition


On the Rhine


Krakow, 6 A.M.


Elegy for the Jewish Villages


Soutine: A Show of Still Lifes


The Minimalist Museum


Self-portrait


A Few Encounters with My Face


Man Without a Face


To My Shadow


More Than Halfway


A Partial History of My Stupidity



To the Clearing


Late March


Green Night


To D.B.


Bounty


To Houston


Eighteen Steps


Charades


Boy with a Headset


Green Figs


The Sweetness


To Lethargy


Gnostic Gospels


A New Theology


Happiness Writes White


I Wish I Could Paint You


To the Subway


As I Walked Home from the Hospital


Green Couch


A Night in September


After a Long Insomniac Night