Edward Hirsch is the winner of many awards, fellowships, and other honors, including Guggenheim, NEA, Delmore Schwartz Memorial, and the National Book Circle Award. He has published numerous books of poetry, most recently Gabriel: A Poem.
Getting and Spending
Nov/Dec 2018
That’s the Job
That’s the job, he said, shrugging his shoulders and running his hand through his hair, like Dante, or a spider that knows its web, That’s just the job, he repeated […]
Getting and Spending
Nov/Dec 2018
The Task
You never expected to spend so many hours staring down an empty sheet of lined paper in the harsh inner light of an all-night diner, ruining your heart over mug […]
Getting and Spending
Nov/Dec 2018
Someone Is Always Shouting
Moon-head is shouting at me to back the fuck up on the forklift I am trying to jab into a tower of wooden pallets stacked all the way to the […]
Nonfiction
Spring 2000
The Question of Affirmation and Despair: An Interview with Edward Hirsch
Born in Chicago in 1950, Edward Hirsch was educated at Grinnell College and the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned the doctorate in 1979. He has taught at several colleges […]
Poetry
Spring 1997
A Fundamentalist
It was just a dump really, a salt-sprayed room in a transient hotel falling into the open sea, but we loved its tackiness— its crippled flamingos and blustering neon sign: […]
Poetry
Spring 1997
Husband and Wife
1 I woke up and found you above me—your face peering down through shadows, your hair sweeping slowly across my chest, your voice crying out a name in the darkness, […]
Poetry
Winter 1990
After the Last Practice
(Grinnell, Iowa, November, 1971) Someone said, I remember the first hard crack Of shoulderpads on the sidelines before a game, And the bruises that blossom on your arms afterward. […]
Poetry
Winter 1990
Roman Fall: In Memoriam
I remember the bells of Santa Maria Maggiore ringing on a crisp November morning Under an undiminished blue sky that seemed to go on forever Over the purple hills rising […]
Roman Fall: In Memoriam
From The Kenyon Review, New Series, Winter, 1990, Vol. XII, No. 1 I remember the bells of Santa Maria Maggiore ringing on a crisp November morning Under an undiminished blue […]
Edward Hirsch
Edward Hirsch’s most recent book is Gabriel: A Poem. His poem “That’s the Job” can be found here. It appears along with two other poems in the “Getting and Spending” […]