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100 of the most moving and inspiring poems of the last 200 years from around the world, a collection that will comfort and enthrall anyone trapped by grief or loneliness, selected by the award-winning, best-selling, and beloved author of How to Read a PoemImplicit 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 muc...

An acclaimed poet curates an inspiring and insightful collection of forty great American poems that reveal the promise of a nationWe live in time of searching. What is America and who are we as a people? How do we understand the dreams and betrayals that have shaped the American experience from the beginning? For poet and critic Edward Hirsch, poetry opens up new ways of answering these questions, of reconnecting with one another and with what...

In his seventieth year, the award-winning poet looks back on what was and accepts what is, in a deeply moving and beautiful sequence about what sustains him--now in paperback.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, " Edward Hirsch takes us backward through the decades in these memory poems of star...

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100 of the most moving and inspiring poems of the last 200 years from around the world, a collection that will comfort and enthrall anyone trapped by grief or loneliness, selected by the award-winning, best-selling, and beloved author of How to Read a Poem 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 ...

In his seventieth year, the award-winning poet looks back on what was and accepts what is, in a deeply moving and 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, " Edward Hirsch takes us backward through the decades in these memory poems of startling immediacy. H...

This inspiring resource presents theories, findings, and interventions from Positive Suicidology, an emerging strengths-based approach to suicide prevention. Its synthesis of positive psychology and suicidology theories offers a science-based framework for promoting wellbeing to complement or, if appropriate, replace traditional deficit-driven theories and therapies used in reducing suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Coverage reviews interperson...

Brings together a selection of the poetry of Edward Hirsch, from seven books of poetry spanning thirty-five years of writing. In poems of grace and passion, this title struggles with the unlikely presence of the divine, with the power of art to redeem human transience, the complexity of relationships.

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Computer Science Symposium in Russia, CSR 2012, held in Nizhny Novgorod in July 2012.The 28 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. CSR 2012 was one of the events of the Alan Turing Year 2012, the topics dealt with cover substantial parts of theoretical computer science and its appcliations.

Uniting the voices of thirty master poets, this sweeping anthology explores the influence of literature's most celebrated bird.

A comprehensive selection of one of our most beloved poet's rich and signifi cant body of work alongside a gathering of "brilliant, deeply pleasurable" new poems ("Booklist).

Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award Never has there been a book of poems quite like Gabriel, in which a short life, a bewildering death, and the unanswerable sorrow of a father come together in such a sustained elegy. This unabashed sequence speaks directly from Hirsch's heart to our own, without sentimentality. From its opening lines-"The funeral director opened the coffin / And there he was alone / From the waist up"-Hirsch's account...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Computer Science Symposium in Russia, CSR 2014, held in Moscow, Russia, in June 2014. The 27 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 76 submissions. In addition the book contains 4 invited lectures. The scope of the proposed topics is quite broad and covers a wide range of areas in theoretical computer science and its applications.

A Poet's Glossary was an extraordinary achievement that continues to stand as a definitive source for poets and poetry lovers alike. Here, The Essential Poet's Glossary gleans the very best from that extraordinary volume. "An instant classic that belongs on the bookshelf of every serious poet and literature student."-Washington PostChancellor of the Academy of American Poets Edward Hirsch has compiled poetic terms spanning centuries and contin...

Edward Hirsch's sixth collection is a descent into the darkness of middle age, narrated with exacting tenderness. He explores the boundaries of human fallibility both in candid personal poems, such as the title piece—a plea for his father, a victim of Alzheimer's wandering the hallway at night—and in his passionate encounters with classic poetic texts, as when Dante's Inferno enters his bedroom:When you read Canto Five aloud last night in your...

Uniting the voices of thirty master poets, "To a Nightingale" traces the presence of literature's most celebrated bird from Sappho's fragments to the verse of Borges. The collection reveals a time-honored, poetic discussion of grief, solitude, beauty, song, and artistic expression--a discussion that moved history's greatest literary minds to create their greatest works. As Keats writes in his famous ode: "Thou wast not born for death, immort...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Computer Science Symposium in Russia, CSR 2008, held in Moscow, Russia, June 7-12, 2008. The 33 revised papers presented together with 5 invited papers and one opening lecture were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions. All major areas in computer science are addressed. The theory track deals with algorithms, protocols, and data structures, complexity and ...

In these powerful and "achingly beautiful" (Booklist) poems of self-examination and openness from one of the cornerstones of the poetry world, Edward Hirsch assesses "the minor triumphs, the major failures" of his life, and the people and places that have colored it.