Highlights of Poetry. Index of poetry. How to Write Poetry. |
How to write specific forms:
Haibun. Haiku. Hay(na)ku. Rengay. Tanka. Concrete. Ghazal. Lai. Pantoum. Prose poem. Rondeau. Rubáiyát. Sestina. Skaldic verse. Sonnet. Terza rima. Triolet. Tritina. Villanelle. |
Poets:
A.E. Housman.
Adam Zagajewski.
Billy Collins.
Billy Collins exercise.
Carl Dennis.
Corey Marks. Edda (Snorri's). Edward Hirsch. Franz Wright. Gary Young. The Gawain Poet. J. Zimmerman. J. Zimmerman (haiku). J. Zimmerman (tanka). Jack Gilbert. Jane Hirshfield. Jorie Graham. Karen Braucher. Kay Ryan. Laureate Poets: Britain; USA. Len Anderson. Li-Young Lee. Linda Pastan. Nordic Skalds. Pulitzer Poetry Prize (U.S.A). Rae Armantrout. Richard Hugo. Robert Bly. Sara Teasdale. Snorri's Edda. Stephen Dunn. Ted Kooser. W.S. Merwin. |
Edward Hirsch featured as guest editor:
Best American Poetry: 2016
Edward Hirsch
Poetry.
Prose.
Time Line.
Books.
BUY: Lay Back the Darkness My favorite poetry book by Hirsch todate. |
See below for statistics and journals of first publication.
BUY: Special Orders. |
So many brushstrokes in a painting, and so much blood. So much art in a still life, and so much death. |
I stood with the people onshore and waved goodbye to the travelers. Some were jubilant; others were brokenhearted. I have always been both. ... I felt lucky to see it off and bereft when it disappeared. |
See below for statistics and journals of first publication.
BUY: Wild Gratitude. |
See below for statistics and journals of first publication.
Earthly Measures (1994) | For the Sleepwalkers (1981) | Lay Back the Darkness (2003) | On Love (1998) | Special Orders (2008) | The Night Parade (1989) | Wild Gratitude (1986) | |
Number of pages of poems | 63 | 57 | 69 | ||||
Number of multi-part poems
(plus the total numbered sections counted as separate poems below) | 3
(7 + 10 + 10 = 27) | 0 | 2 (short,
consistent sections; not counted as separate poems) | ||||
Number of poems | 40 | 40 | 32 | ||||
Mean pages per poem | 1.6 | 1.4 | 2.2 | ||||
Numbered sections | 4 (untitled) | 2 (also titled) | 4 (untitled) | ||||
Sonnets | 15 | 5 | 0 | ||||
2-lines/stanza | 4 | 8 | 1 | ||||
3-lines/stanza | 7 | 11 | 3 | ||||
4-lines/stanza | 2 | 4 | 5 | ||||
5-lines/stanza | 0 | 1 | 4 | ||||
6-lines/stanza | 0 | 1 | 4 | ||||
7-lines/stanza | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||
8-lines/stanza | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||
12-lines/stanza | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||
variable lines/stanza | 12 | 6 | 8 | ||||
single-stanza | 1 | 3 | 6 | ||||
2 stanza | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||
3 stanza | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||||
4 stanza | 1 | 4 | 2 | ||||
5 stanza | 14 | 8 | 0 | ||||
6 stanza | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
7 stanza | 1 | 4 | 3 | ||||
8 stanza | 2 | 4 | 2 | ||||
9 stanza | 1 | 0 | 4 | ||||
10 stanza | 0 | 1 | 3 | ||||
11 stanza | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||||
12 stanza | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||||
14 or more stanza | 3 | 1 | 5 |
Acknowledges first publications in:
Earthly Measures (1994)
| For the Sleepwalkers (1981)
| Lay Back the Darkness (2003)
(12 journals) | On Love (1998)
| Special Orders (2008)
(19 journals) | The Night Parade (1989)
| Wild Gratitude (1986)
(20 journals) | |
Alaska Quarterly Review | SO | ||||||
American Poetry Review | LBTD | SO | |||||
Anteus | WG | ||||||
The Antioch Review | LBTD | WG | |||||
The Atlantic | WG | ||||||
Crazyhorse | WG | ||||||
DoubleTake | LBTD | ||||||
Fiction International | WG | ||||||
Five Points | LBTD | SO | |||||
The Georgia Review | WG | ||||||
Grand Street | WG | ||||||
Gulf Coast | SO | ||||||
The Hopkins Review | SO | ||||||
Image | SO | ||||||
Kayak | WG | ||||||
McSweeney's | SO | ||||||
Memphis State Review | WG | ||||||
Metre (Prague) | LBTD | ||||||
Michigan Quarterly Review | WG | ||||||
The Missouri Review | WG | ||||||
The Nation | LBTD | WG | |||||
National Forum | WG | ||||||
The New Republic | LBTD | SO | WG | ||||
The New Yorker | LBTD | SO | WG | ||||
The New York Review of Books | SO | ||||||
The New York Times | SO | ||||||
The Ontario Review | WG | ||||||
The Paris Review | LBTD | SO | |||||
Per Contra | SO | ||||||
Ploughshares | SO | WG | |||||
Poetry | SO | WG | |||||
Princeton University Library Chronicle | LBTD | ||||||
Rattapallax | SO | ||||||
Shenandoah | WG | ||||||
Skywriting | WG | ||||||
Slate | LBTD | SO | |||||
The Threepenny Review | SO | ||||||
TriQuarterly | LBTD | SO |
a means of exchange, a form of reciprocity, a magic to be shared, a gift. There has never been a civilization without it. That's why I consider poetry ... a human fundamental, like music. It saves something precious in the world from vanishing. It sacramentalizes experience. ... It tries to keep the world from ending by positing itself against oblivion. |
Many of the speakers [poets] have been initiated into the apocalyptic fires of history in ways that Americans have only recently come to understand. ... We recognize their sorrows, their losses, their joys. Suffering is one of the central elements of there poems, but part of the majesty of poetry is that it works against the suffering that it describes. It restores us to what is deepest in ourselves. It consoles us. |
Poets include:
In this section, Hirsh includes some lesser known poets that he wishes to memorialize for personal reasons thereby making this a weaker section. However it has merit, with such poets as:
Related pages:
Books of Poetry Form. Alphabetic list of poetry forms and related topics. How to Write Poetry. |
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