How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry

By Edward Hirsch

How to Read a Poem is an exploration of poetry and feeling. In language at once acute and emotional, Edward Hirsch writes about what poetry is, why it matters, and how we can open up our imaginatio...

The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration

By Edward Hirsch

"A work of art, whether a painting, a dance, a poem, or a jazz composition, can be admired in its own right. But how does the artist actually create his or her work? What is the source of an artist...

The Demon And The Angel Rgg

By Edward Hirsch

A Poet's Glossary

By Edward Hirsch

Poet's Choice

By Edward Hirsch

How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry

By Edward Hirsch

Special Orders: Poems

By Edward Hirsch

Lay Back the Darkness: Poems

By Edward Hirsch

On Love

By Edward Hirsch

"Life has to have the plenitude of art," Edward Hirsch affirms in his fifth volume of poems, On Love, which further establishes him as a major artist. From its opening epigraph by Thomas Hardy and...

Lay Back the Darkness

By Edward Hirsch