Stranger by Night: Poems

by Edward Hirsch

Book Overview

In his seventieth year, the award-winning poet looks back on what was and accepts what is, in a deeply moving and beautiful sequence about what sustains him.

Beginning with My Friends Don't Get Buried, the lament of a delinquent mourner as his friends have begun to die, and ending with the plaintive note to self don't write elegies/anymore, Edward Hirsch takes us backward through the decades in these memory poems of startling immediacy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525657789
• ISBN13: 9780525657781
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.1"