Tag: Edward Hirsch

• birding with Edward Hirsch

  This week’s poem – “Branch Library” by Edward Hirsch – takes me back to being a kid getting dropped off at the Greenwood Library in Corpus Christi, Texas (an experience I recently wrote a short essay about). Those early experiences of wandering stacks are with me in some small part to this day as I…

  José Angel Araguz

  September 7, 2018

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  birds, blog, Corpus Christi Texas, creative writing, Edward Hirsch, Jose Angel Araguz, library, literature, poetry, poetry community, reading, the friday influence

• * containing with edward hirsch & some news

  I remember reading this week’s poem – “Special Orders” by Edward Hirsch – in a Borders back in 2008 when his book (of the same name) came out. Reading through the book, I marveled at Hirsch’s ability to navigate rich emotional territory through an engaging line. His ability to stack various worlds (work, memory, the…

  José Angel Araguz

  October 9, 2015

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  arts, astrology, bookstore, Borders, Cincinnati Ohio, Corpus Christi Texas, Edward Hirsch, Eugene Oregon, Jose Angel Araguz, Libra, literature, lyric poems, poetry, short lyric poems, Special Orders, The Cincinnati Review, the friday influence, The Wall, Tiger’s Eye Press, Virgo, writing