Title: Earthly measures : poems /
Authors: Hirsch, Edward.; Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library).
Publisher: Alfred Knopf : Distributed by Random House, Inc.,
Year: 1994
Subjects: American poetry
Abstract: Edward Hirsch's strong, arresting poems have been praised from the start of his career. Of his second book, Wild Gratitude, Robert Penn Warren said, "I am convinced that the best poems here are unsurpassed in our time." This, his fourth collection, contains his finest work. From gritty, apocalyptic views of the urban Midwest to brilliantly empathetic portrayals of Simone Weil and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the range of poems is at once wide and subtle. "In the Midwest."
Contents: Uncertainty -- Four A.M. -- Orpheus: The Descent -- In the Midwest -- Man on a Fire Escape -- Devil's Night -- In the Midnight Hour -- The Romance of American Communism -- Scorched -- In Memoriam Paul Celan -- Simone Weil: The Year of Factory Work (1934-1935) -- Away from Dogma -- Sortes Virgilianae -- Pilgrimage -- From a Train -- Unearthly Voices -- The Renunciation of Poetry -- Roman Fall -- The Watcher -- The Reader -- The Blue Rider -- The Italian Muse -- Traveler -- Orpheus Ascending -- The Welcoming -- Summer Surprised Us -- Apostrophe -- Blunt Morning -- Solstice -- Luminist Paintings at the National Gallery -- Posthumous Orpheus -- Art Pepper -- Mergers and Acquisitions -- Nebraska, 1883 -- First Snowfall: Intimations -- At the Grave of Wallace Stevens -- Earthly Light.