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LAY BACK THE DARKNESS: POEMS
by Hirsch, Edward
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.
- ISBN 10
- 0375415211
- ISBN 13
- 9780375415210
- Seller
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CHICAGO, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York City, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 80 pages. The author's sixth collection of poems. One of Edward Hirsch's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Edward Hirsch's "Lay Back In Darkness: Poems". Includes, in all its Classical allusiveness and poised perfection, "Under A Wild Green Fig Tree: The Hades Sonnets". "I was sentenced to the punishment / filed along with other tormented spirits / where I vowed to remember the ghostly / and baleful blue undersongs of Hades / and return with them to the waking world". But the stunner is real life, especially the ones touched by the barbarisms called History and Destiny: "Two Suitcases of Children's Drawings From Terezin, 1942-1944" (works from a set of found drawings from the Terezin concentration camp) : "When the locks were unfastened / the drawings spilled over / like a waterfall / and everyone was drenched". An absolute "must-have" title for Edward Hirsch collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Edward Hirsch. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. "Earthly Measures" is regarded by Harold Bloom as one of the canonical works of the 20th century. One of the greatest poets of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER EDWARD HIRSCH TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0375415211.
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
- Modern Rare
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19032
- Title
- LAY BACK THE DARKNESS: POEMS
- Author
- Hirsch, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine Dust Jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition. First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 0375415211
- ISBN 13
- 9780375415210
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York City, NY
- Date Published
- 2003
- Pages
- 80
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