The Harvard Square Book Circle

discusses Edward Hirsch's

Poet's Choice

This event includes a book signing

Date

May
20
Monday
May 20, 2013
7:00 PM ET

Location

Used Books Department
1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138

Tickets

This event is free; no tickets are required.

The Harvard Square Book Circle, our in-store book club, will discuss Edward Hirsch's Poet's Choice.

Edward Hirsch began writing a column called "Poet’s Choice" in the Washington Post Book World in 2002. This book brings together those enormously popular columns, some of which have been revised and expanded, to present a minicourse in world poetry. Poet’s Choice includes the work of more than one hundred poets from ancient times to the present—among them Sappho, W. B. Yeats, Czeslaw Milosz, Primo Levi, Robert Frost, Pablo Neruda, Amy Lowell, Mark Strand, and many more—and shares them with all of Hirsch’s inimitable enthusiasm and joy. Rich, relevant, and inviting, the book offers us the fruits of a life lived in poetry.

Please note: The discussion will focus on the poems below.

"To the Nightingale" by Borges pp 8-9
"Ara Poetica" by Blaga Dimitrova, pp 29-30
"The Gazelle" by Rainer Maria Rilke, pp 69-70
"My Nightingale" by Rose Auslander, pp 82-83
"A Quick Poem" by Adam Zagajewski, pp 105-106
"I Haven't Done Playing with Words,"by Edvard Kocbek pp 108-109
"Abd El-Hadi Fights a Superpower," Taha Muhammad Ali, pp 132-133
"Garden Fragrance" by Lam Thi My Da, p 143
"Between Going and Staying" by Octavio Paz, pp 181-182
"Spell of Creation" by Kathleen Raine, 198-199
"Waste Land Limericks" by Wendy Cope, 200-201
"Arabic" by Agha Shahib Ali, pp 210-211
"Reading: The Bus" by C.K. Williams, pp 219-220
"The Portrait" by Stanley Kunitz, p 232
"Yom Kippur Sonnet, with a Line from Lamentations" by Jacqueline
Osherow, pp 259-260

Used Books Department
1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138

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