Edward Hirsch, The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems, 1975-2010, 2010

 

A rich and significant collection of more than one hundred poems, drawn from a lifetime of “wild gratitude” in poetry.

Grieving for the losses occasioned by our mortality, Hirsch’s ultimate impulse as a poet is to praise—to wreathe himself, as he writes, in “The Living Fire” that burns with a ferocious intensity. [Source]