Abstract

In 100 Poems to Break Your Heart, the author's current book-length project (in progress), Edward Hirsch offers short essays on poems he finds especially heartbreaking, including Dunya Mikhail's “The War Works Hard,” Meena Alexander's “Krishna, 3:29 a.m.,” Zbigniew Herbert's “Mr Cogito and the Imagination,” and Rose Ausländer's “My Nightingale.” The following is an excerpt.

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