Poets Edward Hirsch and  Garrett Hongo, "100 Poems to Break Your Heart"

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Edward Hirsch and friends read selections from "100 Poems to Break Your Heart" on this 1st day of National Poetry Month

Implicit in poetry is the idea that we are enriched by heartbreaks, by the recognition and understanding of suffering—not just our own suffering but also the pain of others. We are not so much diminished as enlarged by grief, by our refusal to vanish, or to let others vanish, without leaving a record. And poets are people who are determined to leave a trace in words, to transform oceanic depths of feeling into art that speaks to others.In <a href="https://www.elliottbaybook.com/book/9780544931886" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">100 Poems to Break Your Heart (HMH)</a>, poet and advocate Edward Hirsch selects 100 poems, from the nineteenth century to the present, and illuminates them, unpacking context and references to help the reader fully experience the range of emotion and wisdom within these poems. EDWARD HIRSCH is a celebrated poet and peerless advocate for poetry. A MacArthur fellow, he has published ten books of poems and six books of prose. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Rome Prize, a Pablo Neruda Presidential Medal of Honor, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for literature. He serves as president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and lives in Brooklyn.For anyone trying to process grief, loneliness, or fear, this collection of poetry will be your guide in trying times.

Poets Edward Hirsch and Garrett Hongo, "100 Poems to Break Your Heart"

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