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Book Description: A deeply impressive gathering of more than one hundred poems, drawn from a lifetime of 'wild gratitude' in poetry.From poems chronicling his insomnia ('the blue rimmed edge / of outer dark, those crossroads / where we meet the dead') to his sustained human engagement with art and culture (poems on Edward Hopper and Paul Celan, love poems in the voices of Baudelaire and Gertrude Stein, a meditation on two suitcases of children's drawings that came out of the Terezin concentration camp) to the lacerating self examinations of his more recent work, Edward Hirsch is a poet of stunning range and quality. Repeatedly confronting the darkness and his own sense of godlessness, he also struggles with the unlikely presence of the divine, the power of art to redeem human transience, and the complexity of relationships. Grieving for the losses occasioned by our mortality, Hirsch's ultimate impulse as a poet is to praise to wreath himself, as he writes, in 'the living fire' that burns with a ferocious intensity.This collection celebrates the work of one of the most passionate and significant poets of our time.

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