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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Inprint Brown Reading Series: Ed Hirsch and Charles
  Simic\nEvent Url: http://www.artshound.com/event/detail/16620/Inprint_Bro
 wn_Reading_Series_Ed_Hirsch_and_Charles_Simic\nEvent Date Begin: 2009-03-3
 0\nEvent Date End: 2009-03-30\n\nThe 2008/2009 Inprint Margarett Root Brow
 n Reading Series presents an evening with two distinguished authors\, Ed H
 irsch and Charles Simic.EDWARD HIRSCH (pictured) former UH Creative Writin
 g Program faculty member and current President of the John Simon Guggenhei
 m Foundation in New York\, has written seven collections of poetry\, inclu
 ding Wild Gratitude\, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award\, O
 n Love\, and Lay Back The Darkness. Charles Guenther writes that Hirschâ�
 ��™s are “poems of rare\, passionate spiritual energy . . . Hirsch
 ’s imagery is luminous and uplifting.” He has also published 
 four prose books\, including How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poet
 ry\, a national bestseller\, which The Baltimore Sun called “a lovel
 y book\, full of joy and wisdom.” In Hirsch’s newest collecti
 on\, Special Orders\, he brings together autobiographical pieces to form a
  picture of his whole life\, beginning with his immigrant grandfather. CHA
 RLES SIMIC\, a prolific critic and essayist as well as the former U.S. Poe
 t Laureate\, has published more than 60 books here and abroad\, including 
 his latest collection of poems\, That Little Something\, which Publishers 
 Weekly calls “by turns surreal\, horrifying\, funny\, sad\, and spok
 en with (his) friendly bemusement.” Simic was born in Yugoslavia\, w
 here he had a traumatic childhood during World War II\, and emigrated to t
 he U.S. in 1954. He did not speak English until he was 15 years old. Libra
 ry Journal calls Simic “a soulmate of Kafka and an anthropologist of
  the unknowable.” His other books of poetry include The World Doesn�
 �€™t End (winner of the Pulitzer Prize)\, What the Grass Says\, Walkin
 g the Black Cat (a finalist for the National Book Award)\, A Wedding in He
 ll\, and Hotel Insomnia. Booklist says that Simic’s poems “ri
 se from the page like the smoke of the last cigarettes of the damned.â€
  Presented in association with the Jewish Community Center of Houston.\n
 \nStart time: 7:30 pm (doors open at 6:45pm)
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SUMMARY:Inprint Brown Reading Series: Ed Hirsch and Charles Simic
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