The Living Fire by Hirsch, Edward -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents New Poems

The Beginning of Poetry On the Anniversary of Joseph Brodsky’s Death Isis Unveiled Winter in Edinburgh Dark Tour Once, in Helsinki The Case Against Poetry Early Sunday Morning Anything but Standard Milk Last Saturday Forebodings What the Last Evening Will Be Like

From For the Sleepwalkers (1981)

Song Against Natural Selection Dusk Insomnia How to Get Back to Chester For the Sleepwalkers Still Life: An Argument Song A Chinese Vase The River Merchant: A Letter Home Transfigured Night, Come Down to Me, Slowly

From Wild Gratitude (1986)

I Need Help Fall Omen Fast Break Edward Hopper and the House by the Railroad (1925) Poor Angels Wild Gratitude Indian Summer The Skokie Theatre Commuters The Village Idiot Three Journeys In Spite of Everything, the Stars Dawn Walk

From The Night Parade (1989)

Memorandums My Grandmother’s Bed My Grandfather’s Poems Incandescence at Dusk A Short Lexicon of Torture in the Eighties Execution In the Underground Garage The Abortion (1969) Infertility

From Earthly Measures (1994)

Uncertainty Four A.M. Man on a Fire Escape Scorched In Memoriam Paul Celan Simone Weil: The Year of Factory Work (1934–1935) Away from Dogma The Reader The Welcoming Summer Surprised Us Solstice Posthumous Orpheus Art Pepper Mergers and Acquisitions Earthly Light

From On Love (1998)

The Poet at Seven Ocean of Grass American Summer Hotel Window Idea of the Holy Two (Scholarly) Love Poems From The Lectures on Love

Denis Diderot Giacomo Leopardi Heinrich Heine Charles Baudelaire Margaret Fuller Tristan Tzara Gertrude Stein Marina Tsvetaeva Oscar Ginsburg Colette

From Lay Back the Darkness (2003)

I Am Going to Start Living Like a Mystic From The Desire Manuscripts

The Craving What the Goddess Can Do The Sentence In the Mourning Fields

The Widening Sky My First Theology Lesson Lay Back the Darkness Yahrzeit Candle Dates Two Suitcases of Children’s Drawings from Terezin, 1942–1944 From The Hades Sonnets

The Forgetfulness Chair The Asphodel Meadows Self-portrait as Eurydice Self-portrait as Hades and Persephone

From Special Orders (2008)

Special Orders Cotton Candy Branch Library Playing the Odds The Chardin Exhibition Kraków, Six A.M. Elegy for the Jewish Villages The Minimalist Museum Self-portrait A Partial History of My Stupidity Late March To D.B. Boy with a Headset Green Figs The Sweetness A New Theology I Wish I Could Paint You To the Subway Green Couch After a Long Insomniac Night

Acknowledgments A Note About the Author Other Books by This Author