{"product_id":"on-love-edward-hirsch-9780375702600","title":"On Love","description":"\"Life has to have the plenitude of art,\" Edward Hirsch affirms in his fifth volume of poems, \u003cb\u003eOn Love\u003c\/b\u003e, which further establishes him as a major artist. From its opening epigraph by Thomas Hardy and an initiating prayer for transformation, \u003cb\u003eOn Love\u003c\/b\u003e takes up the subjects of separateness and fusion, autonomy and blur. The initial progression of fifteen shapely and passionate lyrics (including a sonnet about the poet at seven, a villanelle about the loneliness of a pioneer woman on the prairie, and an elegy for Amy Clampitt) opens out into a sequence of meditations about love. These arresting love poems are spoken by a gallery of historical figures from Denis Diderot, Heinrich Heine, Charles Baudelaire, and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Gertrude Stein, Federico Garcia Lorca, Zora Neale Hurston, and Colette. Each anatomizes a different aspect of eros in poems uttered by a chorus of historical authorities that is also a lone lover's yearning voice. Personal, literary, \u003cb\u003eOn Love\u003c\/b\u003e offers the most formally adept and moving poetry by the author Harold Bloom hails as utterly fresh, canonical, and necessary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edward Hirsch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0375702601\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375702600\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/25\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.96h x 5.50w x 0.30d","brand":"Edward Hirsch","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43919613231359,"sku":"9780375702600","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_1a3f6538-8412-4c68-88b6-c50a25c4fac8.jpg?v=1680810361","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/on-love-edward-hirsch-9780375702600","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}