Edward Hirsch has published eight books of poetry and five books of prose. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
"Hirsch's poem Gabriel, is as raw, as relentless in its
inconsolability, as anything I've read." --David Ulin, Los Angeles
Times
"Part tribute; part existential howl; part intellectual
investigation of our most primal emotions; part novella-like,
buoyant, unsentimental romp through the life of Hirsch's 'wild
spirit, beloved son...'"--Emily Rapp, New York Times Book Review
"Hirsch's lightening-lit portrait of and surging lament for his
hurricane of a son is a courageous, generous, and reverberating
epic of fatherly love and mourning."--Donna Seaman, Booklist,
starred reivew "Embedded within Gabriel is a picaresque novella
about a tempestuous boy and young man, a part Hirsch calls 'the
adventures of Gabriel...' [The poet] Eavan Boland described Gabriel
as 'a masterpiece of sorrow. . . the creation of the loved and lost
boy is one of the poem's most important effects.'"--Alec Wilkinson,
The New Yorker "Unpunctuated, unrhymed triplets serve Hirsch's
grief and tell his story well. . . a near-unforgettable book-length
verse memoir describing the life and death, the rambunctious
childhood, the adventurous youth, the funeral, and the enduring
memory, of the poet's only son."--Publishers Weekly "Gabriel
resists sentimentality at every line break, though it is the most
heartfelt poem I have read."--Tim Adams, The Observer
"Gabriel is an exquisite document of loss."--Michael Andor Brodeur,
Boston Globe
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