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Edward Hirsch

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American poet

Person · Open Library

Works
56

Top works

  • Organized labor and the saloon
  • Poet in New York
  • My Childhood in Pieces
  • Night Music
  • Theodore Roethke

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Austria
Active from
1946-02-28
Active to
2011-11-24
austrian

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
531
Total plays
1,002

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Quotes

  • The line is a way of thinking in poetry, by poetry..it paces the poem.
  • Poetry is a voicing, a calling forth, words waiting to be vocalized.
  • Inspiration is inbreathing, indwelling, poetry can never be entirely willed. It may be true a poet is given only a single line but that line is a gift from the unconscious, intution , a perception.
  • There is no true poetry unconcious inspiration.
  • For most of history poetry has been an oral art, it retains the vestiges of orality, an experience embedded in the sensuality of sounds.
  • The poem is an original and unique creation, but it is reading and recitation: participation.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Edward
Family name
Hirsch
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Chicago
Educated at
Grinnell College
Languages spoken
English language
Image
Edward Hirsch 2.jpg
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date of birth
1950-01-20
Commons category
Edward Hirsch
influenced by
Czesław Miłosz
Sources (4)

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