{"product_id":"the-night-parade-isbn-9780679722991","title":"The Night Parade","description":"\"Edward Hirsch's gifts include an emotional richness coupled with a precise sense of language and metaphor, which makes his best poems wonderful to read.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Stephen Dobyns, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Hirsch possesses an uncanny vividness of memory springing, it seems, from an infinite fund of affection and sadness...There is a wonderful simplicity and clarity in the best of these poems.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Liz Rosenberg, \u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Straightforward and precise, these poems...beckon the reader with their immediacy...With humility and passion, Hirsch illuminates the contradictory resilience and weakness of the human spirit.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003eEdward Hirsch has published five previous books of poems: \u003ci\u003eFor the Sleepwalkers \u003c\/i\u003e(1981), \u003ci\u003eWild Gratitude \u003c\/i\u003e(1986), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, \u003ci\u003eThe Night Parade \u003c\/i\u003e(1989), \u003ci\u003eEarthly Measures \u003c\/i\u003e(1994), and \u003ci\u003eOn Love\u003c\/i\u003e(1998). He has also written three prose books, including \u003ci\u003eHow to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry \u003c\/i\u003e(1999), a national best-seller, and \u003ci\u003eThe Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration \u003c\/i\u003e(2002). A frequent contributor to the leading magazines and periodicals, including \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, DoubleTake, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review, \u003c\/i\u003ehe also writes the Poet's Choice column for the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World.\u003c\/i\u003e He has received the Prix de Rome, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, and a MacArthur Fellowship. A professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston for seventeen years, he is now President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301996712165,"sku":"NP9780679722991","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679722991.jpg?v=1767740725","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-night-parade-isbn-9780679722991","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}