For Edward Hirsch the night is not merely the stretch of time to be endured by the restless insomniac--a character that recurs throughout his poems. It is also imagination's twists and turns; knowledg...
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Critical Essay by Publishers Weekly
The poems in this fine collection ["For the Sleepwalkers"] have the unusual quality of being at once intellectual and deeply heartfelt. Hirsch'...
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Critical Essay by Phoebe Pettingell
[Young] poets who are too careful sometimes dry up. Edward Hirsch is not cautious, and his first book, For the Sleepwalkers …, is uneven. Nevertheless, his f...
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Critical Essay by Jay Parini
Edward Hirsch writes in For the Sleepwalkers with a slight, somewhat self-conscious, formality, as if he wishes to hold his material in place by distancing himself from it...
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Critical Essay by Peter Stitt
Edward Hirsch's For the Sleepwalkers is [a] surprising first book—surprising not just for its quality but for its literary sophistication as well. Hirsch&#x...
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Critical Essay by J. D. Mcclatchy
Hirsch comes to poetry as to a wind-up toy. He plays with it, turns it inside out, breaks and mends it, plays. Sometimes it ticks like Gertrude Stein…. Sometim...
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Edward Hirsch
