Lay Back the Darkness Poems |
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| Author:
| Hirsch, Edward |
| ISBN: | 978-0-375-71002-5 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2004 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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| Imprint: | Knopf |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $15.00 |
Book Description:
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Edward Hirsch's sixth collection is a descent into the darkness of middle age, narrated with exacting tenderness. He explores the boundaries of human fallibility both in candid personal poems, such as the title piece-a plea for his father, a victim of Alzheimer's wandering the hallway at night-and in his passionate encounters with classic poetic texts, as when Dante's Inferno enters his bedroom.
Edward Hirsch's sixth collection is a descent into the darkness of middle age, narrated with exacting tenderness. He explores the boundaries of human fallibility both in candid personal poems, such as the title piece-a plea for his father, a victim of Alzheimer's wandering the hallway at night-and in his passionate encounters with classic poetic texts, as when Dante's Inferno enters his bedroom.