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Calculated to reflect the sixty minutes in an hour of heightened imaginative contemplation, the poems in Ernest Hilbert's first book, Sixty Sonnets, contain memories of violence, historical episodes, humorous reflections, quiet despair, violent discord, public outrage, and private nightmares. A cast of fugitive characters share their despera

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Just as the work of the modernists showed that the best free verse usually has something masterfully formal about it, Hilbert's fine collection might serve to remind us that the best formal poetry has about it a marvelous colloquial freshness and inventiveness, and the ring of an actual human voice. It is a touching and intelligent book. - Franz Wright, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry

<p>Just as the work of the modernists showed that the best free verse usually has something masterfully formal about it, Hilbert's fine collection might serve to remind us that the best formal poetry has about it a marvelous colloquial freshness and inventiveness, and the ring of an actual human voice. It is a touching and intelligent book.<p> <p>- Franz Wright, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry

Ernest Hilbert's sure-footed poems have the breathless urgency of a man telling others the way out of a burning building. Unafraid to startle, often winning out over recalcitrant material, they score astonishing successes. A bold explorer with few rivals, Hilbert enlarges the territory of traditional form. Sixty Sonnets may be the most arresting sequence we have had since John Berryman checked out of America. - X.J. Kennedy, author of Lords of Misrule and editor of Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama

Just as the work of the modernists showed that the best free verse usually has something masterfully formal about it, Hilbert s fine collection might serve to remind us that the best formal poetry has about it a marvelous colloquial freshness and inventiveness, and the ring of an actual human voice. It is a touching and intelligent book.</p> Franz Wright, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry</p>

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Ernest Hilbert is the editor of the Contemporary Poetry Review. He was educated at Oxford University, where he edited the Oxford Quarterly. He later became the poetry editor for Random House's magazine Bold Type in New York City and edited the magazine nowCulture. He is an antiquarian book dealer in Philadelphia, where he lives with his wife, an archaeologist.

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