Potential Titles: Edward Hirsch

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The nights were long and cold and bittersweet - Edward Hirsch "Amour Honestus"

A heavenly light who created havoc for the hell of it - Edward Hirsch "Amour Honestus"

With an abject knight yodeling his head off - Edward Hirsch "Amour Honestus"

The fever spread from poet to poet - Edward Hirsch "Amour Honestus"

Who burned in the high-minded hell of it - Edward Hirsch "Amour Honestus"

The Untouchable had him by the throat - Edward Hirsch "Amour Honestus"

Love is a tower, a trance, a medieval pit - Edward Hirsch "Amour Honestus"

When I lost you, I knew the hell of it - Edward Hirsch "Amour Honestus"

Our destiny is freedom - Edward Hirsch "Bertolt Brecht"

Our longing for height - Edward Hirsch "Bertolt Brecht"

So they can hear their enemies approaching - Edward Hirsch "Black Rhinoceros"

People who carve their horns into daggers - Edward Hirsch "Black Rhinoceros"

Like an exiled general or a grounded unicorn - Edward Hirsch "Black Rhinoceros"

Secret white mirror - Edward Hirsch "Blue Hydrangea"

Echo of forgotten twilights - Edward Hirsch "Blue Hydrangea"

Burn away the night - Edward Hirsch "Blue Hydrangea"

Where darkness branches - Edward Hirsch "The Burning of the Midnight Lamp"

Fading back into shadows - Edward Hirsch "The Burning of the Midnight Lamp"

Spiraling up from the ground - Edward Hirsch "The Burning of the Midnight Lamp"

While darkness vibrated around him - Edward Hirsch "The Burning of the Midnight Lamp"

For what turned out to be the last time - Edward Hirsch "Cotton Candy"

That sweet blue light spun out of nothingness - Edward Hirsch "Cotton Candy"

Who long ago disappeared into the nether regions - Edward Hirsch "Cotton Candy"

Who had tasted the sweetness of air - Edward Hirsch "Cotton Candy"

Unprepared for love - Edward Hirsch "Denis Diderot"

Comply with nothing again - Edward Hirsch "Dr. X"

Entangled in the sand - Edward Hirsch "Dr. X"

The warmth that carried me there - Edward Hirsch "Dr. X"

Crossed a faultline of the body - Edward Hirsch "Dr. X"

Become our separate selves - Edward Hirsch "Dr. X"

That's the way the season changes its tense - Edward Hirsch "Fall"

In a season of odd, dusky congruences - Edward Hirsch "Fall"

Between summer's sprawling past and winter's hard revision - Edward Hirsch "Fall"

One moment pulling out of the station according to schedule - Edward Hirsch "Fall"

Another moment arriving on the next platform - Edward Hirsch "Fall"

The season begins moving around us - Edward Hirsch "Fall"

Pulls us into its dusty, twilit pockets - Edward Hirsch "Fall"

Something invisible and weightless touching our shoulders - Edward Hirsch "Fall"

The autumn wind pressing against our bodies - Edward Hirsch "Fall"

Letting the play develop in front of him - Edward Hirsch "Fast Break"

Fanning out and filling the lanes in tandem - Edward Hirsch "Fast Break"

Without a single bounce hitting the hardwood - Edward Hirsch "Fast Break"

Explodes past them in a fury - Edward Hirsch "Fast Break"

Hitting the floor with a wild, headlong motion - Edward Hirsch "Fast Break"

The evening with its lamps burning - Edward Hirsch "Gabriel" [excerpt]

The night with its head in its hands - Edward Hirsch "Gabriel" [excerpt]

Mysteries sent out without searchlights - Edward Hirsch "Gabriel" [excerpt]

Punished for something obscure we had done - Edward Hirsch "Gabriel" [excerpt]

Would never abandon the puzzle sleeping in the next room - Edward Hirsch "Gabriel" [excerpt]

Never knew this fruit until I tasted it - Edward Hirsch "Gertrude Stein"

Confessions in tears at midnight - Edward Hirsch "Gertrude Stein"

The flavor of joy - Edward Hirsch "Gertrude Stein"

Suffocating inside time - Edward Hirsch "Giacomo Leopardi"

Nothingness clarified - Edward Hirsch "Giacomo Leopardi"

Saturated with stillness - Edward Hirsch "Giacomo Leopardi"

Found the failing olive and the cajoling flute - Edward Hirsch "A Greek Island"

From the marl of the earth in a sacred cove - Edward Hirsch "A Greek Island"

The liberator of the loud shout - Edward Hirsch "A Greek Island"

A temple on top of a hill at the bottom of the sky - Edward Hirsch "A Greek Island"

An addict of the human comedy - Edward Hirsch "Heinrich Heine"

The eternal quarrel between Space and Time - Edward Hirsch "Heinrich Heine"

Nothing can redeem Time - Edward Hirsch "Heinrich Heine"

Why the night hungers for the day - Edward Hirsch "Heinrich Heine"

The sacred groves of your body - Edward Hirsch "Idea of the Holy"

Whose center is nowhere - Edward Hirsch "Idea of the Holy"

Vacated a region within himself - Edward Hirsch "Idea of the Holy"

The wound of chaos - Edward Hirsch "Idea of the Holy"

Stand like twenty-seven prophets in a field - Edward Hirsch "I'm Going to Start Living Like a Mystic"

Each station in a pilgrimage - Edward Hirsch "I'm Going to Start Living Like a Mystic"

Kneel on the track of a vanquished squirrel - Edward Hirsch "I'm Going to Start Living Like a Mystic"

I shall begin scouring the sky for signs - Edward Hirsch "I'm Going to Start Living Like a Mystic"

A disciple of shadows, in praise of the mysteries - Edward Hirsch "I'm Going to Start Living Like a Mystic"

Bitterness that pillows his head - Edward Hirsch "In Memoriam Paul Celan"

Lay these words on the dead man's eyelids - Edward Hirsch "In Memoriam Paul Celan"

The beheaded tulips glisten with rain - Edward Hirsch "In Memoriam Paul Celan"

Canopy the swollen sky with sunspots - Edward Hirsch "In Memoriam Paul Celan"

While thunder addresses the ground - Edward Hirsch "In Memoriam Paul Celan"

The words have united in grief - Edward Hirsch "In Memoriam Paul Celan"

The ghostly hour of lamentation - Edward Hirsch "In Memoriam Paul Celan"

The void's turn, mournful and absolute - Edward Hirsch "In Memoriam Paul Celan"

A scouring eagle wheels and shrieks - Edward Hirsch "In Memoriam Paul Celan"

Let God pray to us for this man - Edward Hirsch "In Memoriam Paul Celan"

Make diverse pilgrimages - Edward Hirsch "Lafcadio Hearn"

In a magnetic dark - Edward Hirsch "Lafcadio Hearn"

Encouraging affection rather than awe - Edward Hirsch "Lafcadio Hearn"

Sanctify human happiness - Edward Hirsch "Lafcadio Hearn"

To penetrate his dream and ease his restless passage - Edward Hirsch "Lay Back the Darkness"

Who could charm everything but the shadows - Edward Hirsch "Lay Back the Darkness"

Who stands on the threshold of a vast night - Edward Hirsch "Lay Back the Darkness"

Primitive wingbeats shuddering in the treetops - Edward Hirsch "Lay Back the Darkness"

Brooding about our fathers always on the make - Edward Hirsch "Liberty Brass"

And planted in plots paid and unpaid - Edward Hirsch "Liberty Brass"

A storm-cloud of rapture - Edward Hirsch "Marina Tsvetaeva"

Deep and wayward passion - Edward Hirsch "Marina Tsvetaeva"

A joyousness beyond the self - Edward Hirsch "Marina Tsvetaeva"

The mountaintop of experience - Edward Hirsch "Marina Tsvetaeva"

Had missed the news bulletin about Stalin - Edward Hirsch "My First Bookstore"

They argued about the origin of the world - Edward Hirsch "My First Bookstore"

I got confused and mixed up God and grief - Edward Hirsch "My First Bookstore"

Even the bottomless spaces grieving - Edward Hirsch "Orphic Rites"

A country sealed behind him - Edward Hirsch "Orphic Rites"

Autumn in his heart - Edward Hirsch "Oscar Ginsburg"

Cut open my pilgrim heart - Edward Hirsch "Oscar Ginsburg"

What the migrant heart knows - Edward Hirsch "Oscar Ginsburg"

An unruly and subversive passion - Edward Hirsch "Oscar Wilde"

With a divine difference - Edward Hirsch "Oscar Wilde"

Brew us fatal pleasures - Edward Hirsch "Oscar Wilde"

Use our virtues to betray us - Edward Hirsch "Oscar Wilde"

Anguished immersion in radiance - Edward Hirsch "Paul Valery"

The threshold of human will - Edward Hirsch "Paul Valery"

Euphoric nonsense - Edward Hirsch "Paul Valery"

A raging sea of obsessions - Edward Hirsch "Paul Valery"

Necessary ache of creative violence - Edward Hirsch "Paul Valery"

Sleepwalking his open heart - Edward Hirsch "Robert Desnos"

Reading the mysterious script of you - Edward Hirsch "Robert Desnos"

Nowhere without walls - Edward Hirsch "Robert Desnos"

In the corner seat of love - Edward Hirsch "Robert Desnos"

Crack open my heart for you - Edward Hirsch "Robert Desnos"

My destiny of furious shadows - Edward Hirsch "Robert Desnos"

In the harsh inner light of an all-night diner - Edward Hirsch "The Task"

Ruining your heart over mug after mug of bitter coffee - Edward Hirsch "The Task"

Or some other mystic of nothingness - Edward Hirsch "The Task"

With loners and insomniacs facing the darkness - Edward Hirsch "The Task"

An interminable night that stretched into months and years - Edward Hirsch "The Task"

Riding the cab of an iron dungeon - Edward Hirsch "That's the Job"

To track down a few hundred giants in chains - Edward Hirsch "That's the Job"

Chains clanking together on rusty wheels - Edward Hirsch "That's the Job"

The clearing yard loaded with empty freight cars - Edward Hirsch "That's the Job"

Taking away its names - Edward Hirsch "The Unnaming"

No more time for commonplace aspirations - Edward Hirsch "The Unnaming"

A rapture of unmaking - Edward Hirsch "The Unnaming"

To their first splendor - Edward Hirsch "The Unnaming"

Matching the oblivion within - Edward Hirsch "The Unnaming"

A garden of cancellations - Edward Hirsch "The Unnaming"

The walls around you kept closing in - Edward Hirsch "What the Last Evening Will Be Like"

To drink with you from the watery fog - Edward Hirsch "What the Last Evening Will Be Like"

You're alone with the whirling cosmos - Edward Hirsch "What the Last Evening Will Be Like"

Night is endless here, silence infinite - Edward Hirsch "What the Last Evening Will Be Like"

The wind sighs for hundreds of miles - Edward Hirsch "Widening Sky"

I am disappearing so far into the dark - Edward Hirsch "Widening Sky"

A tiny seashell that has secretly drifted ashore - Edward Hirsch "Widening Sky"

Who wanted to kneel down and pray without ceasing - Edward Hirsch "Wild Gratitude"

In every one of the splintered London streets - Edward Hirsch "Wild Gratitude"

His grave prayers for the other lunatics - Edward Hirsch "Wild Gratitude"

For its calm bravery and ordinary good conscience - Edward Hirsch "Wild Gratitude"

The slithering serpent of doubt - Edward Hirsch "Zora Neale Hurston"


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