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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Hirsch, Edward, author.     Subjects     American poetry -- 21st century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Hirsch, Edward, author.       by title:      Stranger by night : ...         MARC Display

Stranger by night : poems / Edward Hirsch. by Hirsch, Edward, author. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. Subjects American poetry -- 21st century. ISBN:  9780525657781 (hardcover) : Description:  62 pages ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "In his 70th birthday year, the award-winning poet looks back on what was and accepts what is, in a beautiful sequence about what sustains him. Beginning with "My Friends Don't Get Buried," the lament of a delinquent mourner as his friends have begun to die, and ending with the plaintive note to self "don't write elegies/anymore," Hirsch takes us backward through the decades in these memory poems of startling immediacy. He recalls the black dress a lover wore when he couldn't yet know the tragedy of her burning spirit; the radiance of an autumn day in Detroit when his students smoked outside, passionately discussing Shelley; the day he got off late from a railyard shift and missed an anti-war demonstration. There are direct and indirect elegies to lost contemporaries like Mark Strand, William Meredith, and, most especially, his longtime compatriot Philip Levine, whom he honors in several poems about daily work in the late midcentury Midwest. As the poet ages and begins to lose his peripheral vision, the world is "stranger by night," but these elegant, heart-stirring poems shed light on a lifetime that inevitably contains both sorrow and its opposite"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Aina Haina Public Library Adult Nonfiction 811.54 Hi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 811.54 Hi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 811.54 Hirsch Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 811.54 Hi Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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