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  1. Minsk: Poems by Lavinia Greenlaw, 2005-04-04
  2. The 64 Sonnets by John Keats, 2004-04-01
  3. The Making of a Sonnet: A Norton Anthology
  4. Stresemann: E. Lebensbild (German Edition) by Felix Edward Hirsch, 1978
  5. Richter 858 by Ann Lauterbach, Connie Deanovich, et all 2002-10-15
  6. Biography - Hirsch, Edward (1950-): An article from: Contemporary Authors by Gale Reference Team, 2003-01-01
  7. ON LOVE POEMS BY LOVE EDWARD HIRSCH by Edward Hirsch, 1999-01-01
  8. Edward Hirsch'sThe Living Fire: New and Selected Poems [Hardcover](2010) by E.,(Author) Hirsch, 2010
  9. LEVI, EDWARD HIRSCH: An entry from Thomson Gale's <i>West's Encyclopedia of American Law</i>
  10. (HOW TO READ A POEM) AND FALL IN LOVE WITH POETRY BY Hirsch, Edward ( AUTHOR )paperback{How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry} on 01 Apr, 2000
  11. by Edward Hirsch (Author)How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry (Paperback) by Edward Hirsch (Author), 2000
  12. The Night Parade Poems by Edward Hirsch by Edward Hirsch, 1990
  13. Reading The Water. Selected and Introduced by Edward Hirsch. by CHARLES HARPER. WEBB, 1997
  14. Agnes Martin: The Nineties and Beyond by Agnes Martin, Edward Hirsch, et all 2002-05-15

41. The New York Review Of Books: Edward Hirsch
Bibliography of books and articles by edward hirsch, from The New YorkReview of Books. The New York Review of Books edward hirsch.
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April 18, 1996 Subversive Activities
View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems by Wislawa Szymborska, translated by Stanislaw Baranczak, translated by Clare Cavanagh

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42. PHF - Edward Hirsch: Styles Of Love Poetry
Celebrate Valentine's Day 2001 with multiple awardwinning poet edward hirsch, whowill read from his book On Love, a collection of poems written by him and
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wednesday, feb. 14
5:00 - 6:30 pm
3619 locust walk
Celebrate Valentine's Day 2001 with multiple award-winning poet Edward Hirsch , who will read from his book On Love , a collection of poems written by him and such orphic figures as Gertrude Stein, Charles Baudelaire, and D.H. Lawrence. Penn Religious Studies Professor Ann Matter will introduce " St. Valentine " and explain how he came to be associated with this most secular of holidays. Cosponsored by the Kelly Writers House Related links: The Academy of American Poets
Hirsch on " How to Read a Poem " More of Hirsch's poetry Gu mball Poetry A short history of Valentine's Day ... contact us

43. APR Sept/Oct 2000 Vol. 29/No. 5 | Edward Hirsch
The American Poetry Review edward hirsch excerpt from One Life, One Writing! TheMiddle Generation. What the wish wants to see, it sees. Field and Forest .
http://www.aprweb.org/issues/sept00/hirsch.html
Edward Hirsch excerpt from One Life, One Writing!: The Middle Generation What the wish wants to see, it sees.
    "Field and Forest"
And all is sweetness there
in the deep, enchanted silt.
    "The Riverman"
My life's fever is soaking in night sweat
one life, one writing!
    "Night Sweat"
Strangeness grew in the motionless air.
    "In the Naked Bed, in Plato's Cave"
Snail, snail, glister me forward,
Bird, soft sigh me home,
Worm, be with me.
This is my hard time.
    "The Lost Son"
We are on each other's hands
who care.
    "Homage to Mistress Bradstreet"
It's probably futile to try to speak about them dispassionately, these initiating poemsthese first presenceswho lodged in me long before I ever understood what they asked of us, these core writers whose work launched so many of us into poetry, who delivered us to our own enchantments, our own imaginative lives. I stumbled across The Lost World at about the same time that I discovered Questions of Travel and For the Union Dead and Summer Knowledge. Soon I had also given myself over to the linguistic richnessthe splendid odditiesof "The Lost Son" and "Homage to Mistress Bradstreet." I used to walk around reciting lines from these poems to myself, daydreaming them, so that they all started to fuse together in my mind. Somehow the farmer who stripped down to a blind wish in Randall Jarrell's "Field and Forest" merged with the man who decided to become a witch doctora sacaca they are enchantments that put off the practical world, that estrange us from the familiar and signal the presence of something in us that is deep and demonic, something wild and unruly, irrational, imaginative. We followed these voices into the silken riverthe blind wish, the night mindand ended up giving our lives to the visionary realms they inaugurated.

44. The William Meredith Homepage:Criticism And Scholarship
hirsch, edward. Meredith, The Poet. The Nation 67, 1982. 263264. hirsch, edward. The Art of Poetry XXXIV William Meredith. The Paris Review 95, 1985.
http://www.conncoll.edu/meredith/criticism/
William with Mikey, his yellow lab.
A s one of America's foremost poetic voices, William Meredith has been the subject of several scholarly studies.
Dickey, James. Babel to Byzantium: Poets and Poetry Now. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1968. 197- 198.
Heyen, William. American Poets in 1976. Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1976. 190-199 Howard, Richard. "William Meredith: All of a Piece and Clever and at Some Level, True." Alone In America: Essays on the Art o Poetry in the United States Since 1950 New York, Atheneum Publishers, 1980. 372-85. Rotella, Guy. Three Contemporary Poets of New England: Meredith, Booth, and Davison. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1983.
Clagget, Mary Frances. "Afraid and Letter Proud." The English Journal Gregerson, Linda. Review of "Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems." Poetry, February, 1988, 423-426 Harteis, Richard. "William Meredith." Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series , Vol. 14, Detroit and London, Gale Research Co., 1991. 219-236 Helms, Alan. "Hazards."

45. List Of Books
by edward hirsch Harcourt , cloth , 336 pages. Due/Published February 2002, InStock. by edward hirsch and edward Hirsh Random House, Inc , paper , 96 pages.
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46. Edward Hirsch Levi
Review, volume 46, pp. 304307.. Appendix G. edward hirsch Levi (1911-2000)*.George Anastaplo. I remind you of an essay by Ahad
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[The following is reproduced as it appears in "Legal Education, Economics, and Law School Governance: Explorations," South Dakota Law Review, volume 46 , pp. 304-307
Appendix G. Edward Hirsch Levi (1911-2000)
George Anastaplo
- Leo Strauss It can be considered providential that I was preparing a University of Chicago Works of the Mind Lecture on "Ambition and Order in Shakespeare" when we learned a fortnight ago of the death of Edward H. Levi, a former teacher of mine in the University of Chicago Law School and a former President of the University of Chicago. I presume, therefore, to dedicate this lecture to the memory of a man held in the highest esteem by so many in this University. It is fitting and proper that Mr. Levi should be remembered on this occasion, not least because he was a reliable friend in high places of the Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults, the sponsor of this longstanding lecture series. Indeed, I was able to say in 1991, when we celebrated both the forty-fifth anniversary of the Basic Program and the Centenary of the University of Chicago: The Chicago Tradition helped lead to the national Great Books program first promoted by Robert Maynard Hutchins and Mortimer J. Adler more than half a century ago. This means, among other things, that there are always administrators on the Campus of this University who are sympathetic to what the Basic Program tries to do. One of these has been Edward H. Levi, perhaps (next to Mr. Hutchins) the President of the University of Chicago who has been most friendly to the Basic Program. He even observed on one public occasion that the Basic Program somehow manages to do, with very few resources, what the University

47. Ploughshares, The Literary Journal
Authors Articles edward hirsch. edward hirsch. Ploughshares articles by orabout this author edward hirsch, Ethics of Twilight, Poetry, Winter 199596.
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48. Fast Break By Edward Hirsch
Fast Break. by edward hirsch. Today’s poem is Fast Break by edward hirscha fine poet of national renown and graduate of Grinnell College.
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Fast Break
by Edward Hirsch
This is Michael Carey for Voices from the Prairie
Fast Break
in memory of Dennis Turner, 1946-1984 A hook shot kisses the rim and
and for once our gangly starting center
boxes out his man and times his jump perfectly, gathering the orange leather
from the air like a cherished possession and spinning around to throw a strike
to the outlet who is already shoveling an underhand pass toward the other guard
scissoring past a flat-footed defender who looks stunned and nailed to the floor
in the wrong direction, trying to catch sight of a high, gliding dribble and a man
letting the play develop in front of him in slow motion, almost exactly
both forwards racing down the court
the way that forwards should, fanning out and filling the lanes in tandem, moving
together as brothers passing the ball between them without a dribble, without a single bounce hitting the hardwood until the guard finally lunges out and commits to the wrong man while the power-forward explodes past them in a fury, taking the ball into the air

49. Bucknell's Sojka Visiting Poet Series Presents Edward Hirsch
Bucknell’s Sojka Visiting Poet Series Presents edward hirsch. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Poet and critic edward hirsch will visit Bucknell University Nov.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kathryn Kopchik Oct. 24, 2002 Hirsch will read from his works Sunday, Nov. 3, at 8 p.m. in Bucknell Hall. He will sign books following the reading. He also will give an open class discussion about writing and poetic inspiration Monday, Nov. 4, at 1 p.m. in Room 11, Bucknell Hall. Seating is limited so interested persons should arrive early. Hirsch is the author of five books of poetry including Wild Gratitude , which received the National Book Critics Circle Award and For the Sleepwalkers , which received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy and the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University. Among his nonfiction works are How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry and The Demon and the Angel. Poetry editor of the Wilson Quarterly and a regular contributor to The New Yorker , he writes a weekly column on poetry in the Washington Post Book World This event is made possible by the Bucknell Association for the Arts, the Office of Academic Affairs and the Stadler Center for Poetry.

50. HoCoPoLitSo - The Writing Life - Michael Collier Hosts Edward Hirsch
edward hirsch with host Michael Collier on The Writing Life. This The WritingLife is a particularly rich edition, worth several repeat viewings!
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Edward Hirsch with host Michael Collier on The Writing Life This The Writing Life is a particularly rich edition, worth several repeat viewings! Edward Hirsch, author of five books of poetry and How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry (Harcourt Brace 1999) writes for American Poetry Review and The New Yorker . In 1998 he was awarded a MacArthur "genius" fellowship. He has received many other honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Prix de Rome, and a National Book Critics Circle Award. With host Michael Collier and guest Edward Hirsch talk about On Love (Knopf, 1998), Hirsch's most recent book of poems. He reads "The Poet at Seven", inspired by Rimbaud. Since his own apprenticeship, Hirsch says, he has needed and enjoyed "dialogue" other poets to "help deliver me to my own life and my own feelings". Not only Americans like Frost, Whitman and Dickinson, but a whole range read in translation - Vallejo, Lorca, Neruda - and the Eastern European poets with whom he shared a sense of history, of much older cultures, and of tenderness. Next Hirsch reads and discusses "Ocean of Grass", a villanelle powerfully evoking the loneliness of women who settled the American Midwest. He closes with a poem in the imagined voice of an expert in the erotic, the modern French novelist "Colette".

51. Poet, Essayist Edward Hirsch To Speak At Illinois Wesleyan
2 May 2000 CONTACT Stew Salowitz, 309556-3206 Poet, Essayist edwardhirsch to Speak at Illinois Wesleyan. hirsch is an intelligent
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2 May 2000
CONTACT: Stew Salowitz, 309-556-3206 Poet, Essayist Edward Hirsch to Speak at Illinois Wesleyan "Hirsch is an intelligent reader of poems, his range is wide and his choice of poems engaging..."
- - The New York Times Book Review, Jonathan Wilson BLOOMINGTON, Ill. Edward Hirsch, the author of five books of poems, will be a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow at Illinois Wesleyan University the week of May 15. Hirsch, an English professor at the University of Houston, will speak on the title of his most recent book, "How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry", at 4 p.m. on Tues., May 16, in the Henning Room of the Memorial Student Center. He will also be reading from his poetry at 7 p.m. on Wed., May 17, in the Merwin Gallery of the Ames School of Art. The book, which was released in April 1999, was praised by Alexander Theroux in the Wall Street Journal as "a solid handbook complete with a reading list and a large glossary. (Hirsch) takes us through samples of lyric writing, ballads, Greek odes and free verse, among other things." The magazine Publishers Weekly said, "Drawing on long and considered draughts of learning, Hirsch takes us forcefully through his love of verse, with welcome technical asides and biographical detours along the way." Among his books of poetry are "Wild Gratitude" (1986), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award, and "For the Sleepwalkers" (1981), which received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy and the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University.

52. Poet, Essayist Edward Hirsch To Speak At Illinois Wesleyan
Feb. 16, 2001 Contact Sherry Wallace, 309/5563181 William BolcomGuest Composer at IWU's 2001 Symposium of Contemporary Music.
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Feb. 16, 2001
Contact: Sherry Wallace, 309/556-3181 William Bolcom Guest Composer at IWU's
2001 Symposium of Contemporary Music
BLOOMINGTON, Ill.William Bolcom, recipient of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for music, will be the featured composer at Illinois Wesleyan University's Symposium of Contemporary Music Feb. 28 and March 1. Bolcom's wife, mezzo-soprano Joan Morris, also is a participant. The symposium is free and open to the public. All events will be held in Presser Hall's Westbrook Auditorium, 303 E. University Ave., Bloomington. Established in 1954, the symposium promotes and encourages the performance of contemporary music and recognizes contemporary composers. Last year's featured composer was the acclaimed contemporary artist Libby Larsen. Other past guests have included John Corigliano, Arvo Part, Joseph Schwanter and David Diamond. The two-day event will include a panel discussion on Wednesday, Feb. 28 at 7:30 p.m. entitled, "Words and Music: The Composer's Approach to Text Setting." Following the panel discussion, members of the audience are invited to a reception in the Presser Hall reception room, sponsored by Delta Omicron, a national professional music fraternity for men and women. On Thursday, March 1, Morris will lead a voice master class at 4 p.m. Music from "Flower Drum Song" by Rogers and Hammerstein, "He Loves Me" by Bock and Harnick, "Harlem on my Mind" by Irvin Berlin, "Camelot" by Lerner and Loewe and "More than you Know" by Vincent Youmans will be performed by Julia Morrison, freshman music theatre major from Arlington Heights, Ill., Penny Hansen, junior music major from St. Charles, Ill., Kristin Stewart, junior music theatre major from Martelle, Iowa, Scott Moreau, senior music theatre major from Litchfield, Maine and Julie Peterson, senior music major from Pontiac, Ill.

53. Edward Hirsch
As a poet, teacher, and critic, edward hirsch is passionate about poetry’scapacity to connect us more deeply to ourselves and to each other.
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“The poet is one who will not be reconciled, who is determined to leave a trace in words, to transform oceanic depths of feeling into the faithful nuances of art.”
As a poet, teacher, and critic, EDWARD HIRSCH is passionate about poetry’s capacity to connect us more deeply to ourselves and to each other. Most recently, his prose book How To Read A Poem and fall in love with poetry (1999) fuses his passion and erudition to win over readers and writers of poetry; a task already undertaken in five volumes of poetry— On Love Earthly Measures The Night Parade Wild Gratitude (1986), and For the Sleepwalkers (1981)—that have all received critical acclaim, including a National Book Critics’ Circle Award. Edward Hirsch teaches at the University of Houston and writes frequently on poetry for publications such as The New York Times Book Review and The New Yorker . His numerous honors include an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, a Guggenheim and a MacArthur Fellowship. "In Memoriam Paul Celan"

54. Edward Hirsch
for us. Speaking to teachers at Festival 2000. edward hirsch’spassion for his art is matched only by his erudition. Author of
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We should not underestimate the capacity for tenderness that poetry opens for us. Speaking to teachers at Festival 2000 EDWARD HIRSCH’s passion for his art is matched only by his erudition. Author of the acclaimed introductory text, How to Read A Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry (1999), his other books on poetry include The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration (2002), and Responsive Reading His many honors and awards include an Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, and Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships. He has written five volumes of poetry— On Love Earthly Measures The Night Parade Wild Gratitude (1986), and For the Sleepwalkers Mr. Hirsch teaches at the University of Houston and writes frequently for publications such as The New York Times Book Review and The New Yorker General Festival Information
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55. Edward Hirsch, The Demon And The Angel
edward hirsch, awardwinning poet and professor of English at the University ofHouston, discusses his just-released book, The Demon and the Angel Searching
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The IHC Idee Levitan Endowed Lecture Series presents
5 P.M. / Thursday, May 9 / Free
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Mary Craig Auditorium
1130 State Street
Edward Hirsch
, award-winning poet and professor of English at the University of Houston, discusses his just-released book, The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration (Harcourt Brace, March, 2002). Courtesy of the UCSB Bookstore, copies of The Demon and the Angel will be available for purchase and signing at this event. Book Description About the Author
Edward Hirsch was born in Chicago in 1950 and educated at Grinnell College and the University of Pennsylvania. His five books of poetry include: On Love (Alfred A. Knopf, 1998); Earthly Measures The Night Parade Wild Gratitude (1986), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award; and For the Sleepwalkers (1981), which received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy and the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University. He writes frequently about poetry for leading magazines and periodicals, among them

56. Edward Hirsch The Khazars Are Coming
They are said to have been happy and potent, to have triumphed over their enemies Lord Kingsborough (edward King) quoted by edward hirsch. Previous page.
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The following article was forwarded to "Brit-Am" by the author
Edward (Ephraim) Hirsch.
The opinions expressed are his own. His account is highly
idealised and maybe exaggerated nevertheless sources do exist that render
most of his claims defensible. The article concerns the Khazars who were
related to the Parthians. The Parthians were also known for their tolerance
and for a laissez faire administration that was successful. Both Parthians
and Khazars were descended from the Lost Ten Tribes and both were kinsfolk
to entities now amongst nations of northwest European descent.. Maybe the
ambition to realise human potential through constitutional freedom is a
recurring urge of the Israelite Peoples. As elsewhere the basic core of the Khazars were the Agathyrsi descendants of Aiezer [Ai-g-ezer] of Menasseh. The North Americans are also dominated by Menasseh and the account below reads like another version of the American Dream. Edward (Ephraim) Hirsch The Khazars are coming It sounds like the plot from an Arnold Schwarzenegger epic. A nomadic people in the South Russian steppes raised up against tyranny and barbarism. Surrounded by wild tribes who yoked their women to chariots

57. CMU Press: Edward Hirsch's For The Sleepwalkers
edward hirsch For the Sleepwalkers (1998) ISBN 088748-251-1 $12.95 Paper, edwardhirsch has published four books of poems For the Sleepwalkers (1981), Wild
http://www.cmu.edu/universitypress/U.Hirs-ForS.html
Edward Hirsch
For the Sleepwalkers

(1998) ISBN 0-88748-251-1
$12.95 Paper
Edward Hirsch has published four books of poems: For the Sleepwalkers Wild Gratitude The Night Parade (1989), and Earthly Measures (1994). He teaches at the University of Houston. He was the winner of The Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award and the Lavan Younger Poets Award.

58. Lay Back The Darkness By Edward Hirsch
to edward hirsch reading this poem. My Lay Back the Darkness By edwardhirsch Posted Tuesday, August 13, 2002, at 733 AM PT Listen
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Lay Back the Darkness
By Edward Hirsch
Posted Tuesday, August 13, 2002, at 7:33 AM PT
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My father in the night shuffling from room to room
on an obscure mission through the hallway. Help me, spirits, to penetrate his dream and ease his restless passage. Lay back the darkness for a salesman who could charm everything but the shadows, an immigrant who stands on the threshold of a vast night without his walker or his cane and cannot remember what he meant to say, though his right arm is raised, as if in prophecy, while his left shakes uselessly in warning. My father in the night shuffling from room to room is no longer a father or a husband or a son, But a boy standing on the edge of a forest listening to the distant cry of wolves, to wild dogs, to primitive wingbeats shuddering in the treetops. Edward Hirsch is the author of Earthly Measures Click here to visit Robert Pinsky's Favorite Poem Project site.

59. A Painting Of Pan - ("He Who Feeds") By Edward Hirsch
poem, A weekly poem, read by the author. A Painting of Pan ( He who feeds )By edward hirsch Posted Wednesday, November 27, 1996, at 1230 AM PT
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A Painting of Pan
("He who feeds")
By Edward Hirsch
Posted Wednesday, November 27, 1996, at 12:30 AM PT
To hear the poet read "A Painting of Pan," click here or on the title. I wasn't afraid of the painting of Pan
mounting the nymph from behind, seizing her. I wasn't afraid of crossing the room to study it, under the burning chandelier. But when I saw the god's animal eyes glittering, heedless, intent and how the girl looked back at him with a half-curious, half-panicky stare I remembered how you looked at me across the reeling party that night and how, later, when I touched your arm something flickered on your face open and feral, frank. A hunted look. A kind of tenderness toward the hunter. A perception of everything sordid that was going to happen between us. Look at me , I said later in bed, and you looked up with my wet food smeared across your parted lips and I saw it flickering again that creature trapped in your eyes

60. Bookreporter.com - THE DEMON AND THE ANGEL By Edward Hirsch
THE DEMON AND THE ANGEL Searching for the Source of Artistic ExpressionEdward hirsch Harcourt Nonfiction ISBN 0151005389. I am
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THE DEMON AND THE ANGEL: Searching for the Source of Artistic Expression
Edward Hirsch

Harcourt
Nonfiction
ISBN: 0151005389
I am a drinker of words, one who gets drunk by turning pages. For a drunk it is nearly impossible to savor a glass of rare wine. Full bodied and sensual, the liquid will pass his lips as he passes judgment. Although his intellect will tell him not to, he will swill the liquid after the first few sips. A rapture of sensations will permeate his being, and he will crave more, intensely, so that he may have rapture and symphony all at once. An explosion will come into and throughout his body, and he will attempt to recreate the experience night after night. Soon he will be forced to cast aside the glass and try to forget the joy. A few days and months may pass and he will feel as if he has won the battle, the struggle with his internal demons, and then will find sitting on his night stand a cut crystal glass full of the burgundy liquid, begging him to enjoy.
Let me state unequivocally from the start that Edward Hirsch's book, THE DEMON AND THE ANGEL, is a rare bottle of Château de Rothschild to be savored and swilled at the same time. I had put the title aside, not because it was bad, but rather it is the work of brilliance and demands time to be read properly, not rushed. The drunk in me wanted to slam the words down my gullet and allow them to stumble around. As the day to day pressures of the world condensed around me, I found the glass at my bedside and went back for more.

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