By Edward Hirsch
Edward Hirsch all started writing a column known as "Poet’s selection" within the Washington put up e-book global in 2002. This booklet brings jointly these significantly renowned columns, a few of that have been revised and multiplied, to offer a minicourse in international poetry. Poet’s selection comprises the paintings of multiple hundred poets from precedent days to the present—among them Sappho, W. B. Yeats, Czeslaw Milosz, Primo Levi, Robert Frost, Pablo Neruda, Amy Lowell, Mark Strand, and lots of more—and stocks them with all of Hirsch’s inimitable enthusiasm and pleasure. wealthy, proper, and welcoming, the ebook deals us the end result of a existence lived in poetry.
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I've read to the middle of the list of ships: the strung-out flock, the stream of cranes that once rose above Hellas. Flight of cranes crossing strange borders, leaders drenched with the foam of the gods, where are you sailing? What would Troy be to you, men of Achaea, without Helen? The sea-Homer-it's all moved by love. But to whom shall I listen? No sound now from Homer, and the black sea roars like a speech and thunders up the bed. One could write a good essay about the chronic inability to sleep in Russian poetry, It would begin with Pushkin's "Lines Written at Night During Insomnia" (1830), it would include Innokenty Annensky's key cycle "Insomnia" (1904), and it would highlight Marina Tsvetaeva's restless ten-part sequence "Insomnia" (1916).
To-night we heard a call A rattle on the window-pane, A voice in the sharp air, And felt a breath stirring our hair, A flame within us: Something swih and tall Swept in and out and that was all. Who can know? It left no mark upon the snow, But suddenly it snapped the chain Unbarred, flung wide the door Which will not shut again; And so we cannot sit here any more. 52 EDWARD HlRSCH We must arise and go: The world is cold without And dark and hedged about With mystery and enmity and doubt, But we must go Though yet we do not know Who called, or what marks we shall leave upon the snow.
The path of my fate is, I'm afraid, unwavering. / I'll soon be at death's door," he foresaw in "Artless Lines," one of his last poems. " The poem concludes with the commanding whisper of God: Swifi is the race hard the rocky place and the Rower of live died beneath our knees 86 EDWARD HIRSCH while the lips cried silently in the depths of the heart. " It was a wise spirit and beautiful too. And since then! How ofcen has God whispered: "Silence is everywhere but in my eyes. Become intoxicated with me.
