
Lay Back the Darkness
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When you read Canto Five aloud last night
in your naked, singsong, fractured Italian,
my sweet compulsion, my carnal appetite,
I suspected we shall never be forgiven
for devouring each other body and soul . . .
From the lighting of a Yahrzeit candle to the drawings by the children of Terezin, Hirsch longs for transcendence in art and in the troubled history of his faith. In "The Hades Sonnets,” the ravishing series that crowns the collection, the poet awakens full of grief in his wife's arms, but here as throughout, there is a luminous forgiveness in his examination of our sorrows. Taken together, these poems offer a profound engagement with our need to capture what is passing (and past) in the incandescence of language.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Other Books By This Author
- Dedication
- Contents
- Part 1 - I am Going to Start Living Like a Mystic
- Chapter 1 - The Craving
- Chapter 2 - The Ravishment
- Chapter 3 - What the Goddess Can Do
- Chapter 4 - The Sentence
- Chapter 5 - In the Mourning Fields
- Chapter 6 - After All the Orphic Enchantments
- Chapter 7 - The Regret
- Part 2
- Chapter 8 - The Widening Sky
- Chapter 9 - My First Theology Lesson
- Chapter 10 - Lay Back the Darkness
- Chapter 11 - Reading Isaac Babel's Diary on the Lower East Side
- Chapter 12 - Yahrzeit Candle
- Chapter 13 - The Magic Mirror
- Chapter 14 - Work Song
- Chapter 15 - Wheeling My Father Through the Alzheimer's Ward
- Chapter 16 - My Father's Childhood
- Chapter 17 - Dates
- Part 3
- Chapter 18 - The Horizontal Line
- Chapter 19 - The Evanescence
- Chapter 20 - Two Suitcases of Children's Drawings from Terezin, 1942-1944
- Part 4 - Under a Wild Green Fig Tree
- Chapter 21 - Self-Portrait as Persephone
- Chapter 22 - Franz Marc's Lost Painting Orpheus with the Animals (1907-1908)
- Chapter 23 - The Forgetfulness Chair
- Chapter 24 - The Asphodel Meadows
- Chapter 25 - Self-Portrait as Eurydice
- Chapter 26 - Self-Portrait as Eurydice, II
- Chapter 27 - Self-Portrait as Eurydice, III
- Chapter 28 - To Demeter
- Chapter 29 - Self-Portrait as Hades and Persephone
- Chapter 30 - Voyage
- A Note About the Author
- A Note on the Type
- Copyright
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