My Childhood in Pieces: A Stand-Up Comedy, a Skokie Elegy - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780593802823ISBN-10:593802829UPC:9780593802823Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, PoetryBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Subjects & Themes, AmericanBook Topic:FamilySize:9.00 x 6.10 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCAA0S9QTH
My Childhood in Pieces: A Stand-Up Comedy, a Skokie Elegy
From the award-winning poet, dark comic microbursts of prose deliver a whole childhood, at the hands of an aspiring middle-class Jewish family whose hard-boiled American values and wit were the forge of a poet's coming-of-age. "My grandparents taught me to write my sins on paper and cast them into the water. . . . They didn't expect an entire book," Hirsch says in the "prologue" to this glorious...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780593802823ISBN-10:593802829UPC:9780593802823Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, PoetryBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Subjects & Themes, AmericanBook Topic:FamilySize:9.00 x 6.10 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCAA0S9QTH
EDWARD HIRSCH, a Chicago native and MacArthur Fellow, has published ten books of poetry, including The Living Fire New and Selected Poems and Gabriel A Poem, a book-length elegy for his son. He has also published eight books of prose, among them How to Read a Poem And Fall in Love with Poetry, a national bestseller, and 100 Poems to Break Your Heart. He has received numerous prizes, including...
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