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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Stranger by night
    sub title: poems
  name:
    name part: Hirsch, Edward
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Poetry.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 62 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: "In his 70th birthday year, the award-winning poet looks back on what was and accepts what is, in a beautiful sequence about what sustains him. Beginning with "My Friends Don't Get Buried," the lament of a delinquent mourner as his friends have begun to die, and ending with the plaintive note to self "don't write elegies/anymore," Hirsch takes us backward through the decades in these memory poems of startling immediacy. He recalls the black dress a lover wore when he couldn't yet know the tragedy of her burning spirit; the radiance of an autumn day in Detroit when his students smoked outside, passionately discussing Shelley; the day he got off late from a railyard shift and missed an anti-war demonstration. There are direct and indirect elegies to lost contemporaries like Mark Strand, William Meredith, and, most especially, his longtime compatriot Philip Levine, whom he honors in several poems about daily work in the late midcentury Midwest. As the poet ages and begins to lose his peripheral vision, the world is "stranger by night," but these elegant, heart-stirring poems shed light on a lifetime that inevitably contains both sorrow and its opposite"--
  note: Edward Hirsch.
  note: "This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"
  subject:
    topic: Poetry, Modern
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: POETRY / American
  subject:
    topic: POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss
  subject:
    topic: POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Places
  classification: PS3558.I64 A6 2020
  classification: 811/.54
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Stranger by night
    name:
      name part: Hirsch, Edward, 1950-
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (DLC) 2019022483
  identifier: 9780525657781
  identifier: 0525657789
  identifier: 9780525657798
  identifier: 2019022482
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190531
    record change date: 20250318213053.5
    record identifier: in00004124041
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng