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Since his arrival to the poetry scene 30 years ago, writer Edward Hirsch has risen to prominence, not only among poets and poetry lovers but also among a much wider American readership-thanks to his bestselling literary user's manual, How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry.

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Hirsch's work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, American Poetry Review, and The Paris Review. His collections of poems include: Wild Gratitude (1986), On Love (1998), Lay Back the Darkness (2003), Special Orders (2008), and, most recently, The Living Fire: New & Selected Poems, drawn from a lifetime of "wild gratitude" in poetry. He's also published five books of nonfiction, and serves as series editor of The Writer's Word (Trinity University Press). From 2002 to 2005 he wrote the weekly column "Poet's Choice" for the Washington Post Book World.

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A native of Chicago, Hirsch has taught at Wayne State and the University of Houston, and now resides in New York, where he serves as president of the Guggenheim Foundation. Among his many, many honors are fellowships from the Guggenheim and Ingram Merrill Foundations, the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, an Academy of Arts and Letters Award, and a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award. In 2008, he was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

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