Lay Back the Darkness: Poems
by Hirsch, Edward
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0375415211
- ISBN 13
- 9780375415210
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
Edward Hirsch has published five previous books of poems: For the Sleepwalkers (1981), Wild Gratitude (1986), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Night Parade (1989), Earthly Measures (1994), and On Love (1998). He has also written three prose books, including How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry (1999), a national best-seller, and The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration (2002). A frequent contributor to leading magazines and periodicals, including The New Yorker , DoubleTake , and American Poetry Review , he also writes the Poet’s Choice column for the Washington Post Book World . He has received the Prix de Rome, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, and a MacArthur Fellowship. A professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston for seventeen years, he is now President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Arundel Books of Seattle (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 605215
- Title
- Lay Back the Darkness: Poems
- Author
- Hirsch, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375415211
- ISBN 13
- 9780375415210
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- Westminister, Maryland, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2003
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