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Edward Hirsch

Poetry itself hasn’t been well served by poets who fled to the margins.

– Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch

The sole literary presence from my childhood was my grandfather, a Jewish immigrant from Latvia, who eccentrically copied poems into the backs of his books. After he died, when I was 8 years old, my grandmother gave his books away, and his poems were lost.

– Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch

I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it.

– Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch

Poems mesmerized me, and I felt better when I was writing them, or trying to – more in touch with something deep and dark within myself.

– Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch

I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation.

– Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch

I believe in rooting poems in actual places, even if you move into some other extraordinary realm.

– Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch

I still feel that I’m capable of being as emotionally present as when I was young.

– Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch

Each book should be an entity unto itself, with its own structure, character, life, name.

– Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch

There are a lot of poems where I am questing for God. I don’t think there is any finding of God.

– Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch

My cultural experiences were as important to my formation as many of the other things that happened to me.

– Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch

You are always trying to make something that is more than the sum of its parts.

– Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch

It’s very important to me to be an American poet, a Jewish poet, a poet who came of age in the 1960s.

– Edward Hirsch

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