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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Edward Hirsch:  book signing and discussion\nEvent 
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 g_and_discussion\nEvent Date Begin: 2010-04-06\nEvent Date End: 2010-04-06
 \n\nBrazos Bookstore presents a book signing and discussion with Edward Hi
 rsch\, Tuesday\, April 6\, at 7pm.\nAnother April means another National P
 oetry Month\, and another book for Ed Hirsch means another delightful even
 ing of poetry here at Brazos. We love welcoming Hirsch back to Houston and
  celebrating his work\, past and present. His rich and significant upcomin
 g collection of more than one hundred new and selected poems chronicle ins
 omnia (&ldquo\;the blue-rimmed edge / of outer dark\, those crossroads / w
 here we meet the dead&rdquo\;)\, art and culture (poems on Edward Hopper a
 nd Paul Celan\, love poems in the voices of Baudelaire and Gertrude Stein\
 , a meditation on two suitcases of children's drawings that came out of th
 e Terezin concentration camp)\, and his own experience\, including the pow
 erful\, frank self-examinations in his more recent work.\nRepeatedly confr
 onting the darkness\, his own sense of godlessness (&ldquo\;Forgive me\, f
 aith\, for never having any&rdquo\;)\, he also struggles with the unlikely
  presence of the divine\, the power of art to redeem human transience\, an
 d the complexity of relationships. Throughout the collection\, his own lif
 e trajectory enriches the poems\; he is the &ldquo\;skinny\, long-beaked b
 oy / who perched in the branches of the old branch library\,&rdquo\; as we
 ll as the passionate middle-aged man who tells his lover\, &ldquo\;I wish 
 I could paint you&mdash\; / . . . / I need a brush for your hard angles / 
 and ferocious blues and reds. / . . . / I wish I could paint you / from th
 e waist down.&rdquo\;\nGrieving for the losses occasioned by our mortality
 \, Hirsch's ultimate impulse as a poet is to praise&mdash\;to wreathe hims
 elf\, as he writes\, in &ldquo\;the living fire&rdquo\; that burns with a 
 ferocious intensity.\nEdward Hirsch is the author of seven previous collec
 tions of poetry and four prose books\, among them How to Read a Poem and F
 all in Love with Poetry\, a national best seller. He has received numerous
  awards for his poetry\, including the National Book Critics Circle Award 
 and a MacArthur Fellowship\, and publishes regularly in a wide variety of 
 magazines and journals. A longtime teacher\, at Wayne State University and
  in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston\, Hirsch is 
 now president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He lives i
 n New York City.\n\nStart time: 7:00pm
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