EDWARD HIRSCH
100 POEMS TO BREAK YOUR HEART
COMING MAR 30 2021
“Each profoundly arresting poem is accompanied by a succinct yet passionate essay masterfully combining biography and commentary. Hirsch has selected lyrics confronting sorrow engendered by the death of a loved one, war, genocide, exile, violence, racism, and other crimes against humanity. Proceeding chronologically from the late nineteenth century to the present and encompassing translated works, Hirsch’s darkly illuminating anthology includes Anna Ahkmatova, Gwendolyn Brooks, Nazim Hikmet, Garret Hongo, Yusef Komunyakaa, Philip Levine, Czesław Miłosz, Adrienne Rich, Patricia Smith, Natasha Trethewey, and César Vallejo.”
— Booklist, Starred Review