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It's very important to me to be an American poet, a Jewish poet, a poet who came of age in the 1960s.

~Edward Hirsch

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You are always trying to make something that is more than the sum of its parts.

~Edward Hirsch

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My cultural experiences were as important to my formation as many of the other things that happened to me.

~Edward Hirsch

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There are a lot of poems where I am questing for God. I don't think there is any finding of God.

~Edward Hirsch

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Each book should be an entity unto itself, with its own structure, character, life, name.

~Edward Hirsch

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I believe in rooting poems in actual places, even if you move into some other extraordinary realm.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Actual Believe Even Extraordinary Move Other Places Poems Realm Rooting Some You I Believe I Believe In

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I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation.

~Edward Hirsch

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I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it.

~Edward Hirsch

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The sole literary presence from my childhood was my grandfather, a Jewish immigrant from Latvia, who eccentrically copied poems into the backs of his books. After he died, when I was 8 years old, my grandmother gave his books away, and his poems were lost.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: After Away Backs Books Childhood Copied Died Gave Grandfather Grandmother He His Immigrant Jewish Literary Lost Old Poems Presence Sole Were Who Years

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Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.

~Edward Hirsch

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: January 20th, 1950

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