An unforgettable account of the life and death of the poet's son,
Gabriel.
Never has there been a book of poems quite like "Gabriel," in which
a short life, a bewildering death, and the unanswerable sorrow of a
father come together in such a sustained elegy. This unabashed
sequence speaks directly from Hirsch's heart to our own, without
sentimentality. From its opening lines-"The funeral director opened
the coffin "/" And there he was alone "/" From the waist
up"""-Hirsch's account is poignantly direct and open to the strange
vicissitudes and tricks of grief. He tells the story of how a once
unstoppable child, who suffered from various developmental
disorders, turned into a tattooed, impulsive, rebellious young
adult. Hirsch mixes his tale of Gabriel with the stories of other
poets through the centuries who have also lost children, and
expresses his feelings through theirs. His poem enters the broad
stream of human grief and raises in us the strange hope, even
consolation, we find in the writer's act of witnessing.
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