How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love With Poetry by Edward Hirsch

Author:Edward Hirsch [Hirsch, Edward]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Non-Fiction, Literary Criticism, Poetry
ISBN: 9780547543727
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 1999-03-22T04:00:00+00:00

We’ll take refuge in bells, in the swinging bells,

in the peal, the air, the heart of ringing.

We’ll take refuge in bells and we’ll float

over the earth in their heavy casings.

(translated by Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, and C. K. Williams)

He rejoices in the power of wings and bells, of poetry, music, and art. “I’m truly not a child of the ocean,” Zagajewski says about himself in his poem “Self-portrait,” “but a child of air, mint and cello.” Zagajewski is in some sense a pilgrim, a celebrant in search of the divine. He keeps getting called back to the world of historical ironies, of doubts, but he also keeps getting pulled toward the ecstatic acceptance of everything. He is “impaled by sharp barbs of bliss,” his poems are filled with radiant moments of plenitude. They are spiritual emblems, hymns to the unknown, levers for transcendence.

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