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100 Poems to Break Your Heart
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Implicit in poetry is the idea that we are enriched by heartbreaks, by the recognition and understanding of suffering—not just our own suffering but also the pain of others. We are not so much diminished as enlarged by grief, by our refusal to vanish, or to let others vanish, without leaving a record. And poets are people who are determined to leave a trace in words, to transform oceanic depths of feeling into art that speaks to others.
In
, Edward Hirsch—prize-winning poet, critic, and author of
—selects 100 poems, from the nineteenth century to the present, and illuminates them, unpacking context and references to help the reader fully experience the range of emotion and wisdom within them.
"Darkly illuminating." —
(starred review)
"These 100 poems will indeed break hearts, but they also offer examples of resilience, the lasting impact of words, and a wisdom that a reader can return to and share." —
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“I wished this book focused more on the poems than the author's thoughts about the poems.
I didn't open this to have poetry or specific poems explained to me. I opened it to experience heart-breaking poems. In the end, the impact of the poetry was thoroughly destroyed by the unneeded analysis surrounding it.
I say this as someone with an English minor who does understand the point of analysis.
In the end, I either skimmed or skipped the historical context and analysis completely and just read what I came to the collection for: the poems.
*I read this as part of Hoopla's National Poetry Month Poetry BingePass*”
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