Edward Hirsch: The Art of Poetry No. 110 — A Poet's Life in Verse
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Interviewed by Bhisham Bherwani
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An interview with poet Edward Hirsch, featured as The Art of Poetry No. 110, covering his career from his debut For the Sleepwalkers (1981) through Stranger by Night (2020). The piece explores Hirsch's development as a poet of both emotion and intellect, his award-winning collections including Wild Gratitude (National Book Critics Circle Award), and his ability to address metaphysical subjects while giving voice to the disenfranchised. The interview touches on his philosophy that a poet must write out of lived experience and name what matters.
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· 3 pulledIt's part of your job, as a poet, to write out of experience. To name what matters to you. You've only got one life to draw on.
A poet of both emotion and intellect, a poet as able to explore metaphysical subjects as to give voice to the disenfranchised.
His debut, For the Sleepwalkers, published in 1981 when he was thirty-one, won the Lavan Younger Poets Award.
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