Edward Hirsch on falling in love with poetry

On this edition of HoCoPoLitSo's "The Writing Life," poet Michael Collier and mid-westerner Ed Hirsch huddle in shirt sleeves to talk poetry. Not only American, but international poets he read in translation, says Hirsch, enable him to discover his vocation. From his fifth book of poems On Love, they consider "The Poet at Seven," "Colette," and the moving "Ocean of Grass." Recorded in 2000, the show features the pair discussing Hirsch's seminal nonfiction book, How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry.
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