Edward Hirsch
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Publication Date
2025.
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276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"'My grandparents taught me to write my sins on paper and cast them into the water on the first day of the New Year. They didn't expect an entire book,' Hirsch says in the 'prologue' to this glorious festival of knife-sharp observations. In micro chapters-sometimes only a single scathing sentence long-with titles like 'Call to Breakfast,' 'Pay Cash,' 'The Sorrow of Manly Sports,' and 'Aristotle on Lawrence Avenue,' Eddie's gambling father, Ruby, son...
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"Everything Comes Next contains Naomi Shihab Nye's most beloved poems, including 'Famous,' 'A Valentine for Ernest Mann,' 'Kindness,' and 'Gate A-4,' as well as new, unpublished poems. It is an introduction to the poet's work for new readers, as well as a comprehensive edition for classrooms"-- Provided by publisher.
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Publication Date
2017
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The essential collection by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner who was "one of the true master poets of his generation" (The New York Times). In the words of Galway Kinnell, it is "the poet's job to figure out what's happening within oneself, to figure out the connection between the self and the world, and to get it down in words that have a lasting shape, that have a chance of lasting." With this deeply probing and restlessly curious...