For the past decade and a half, Ernest Hilbert has worked as a librettist with composers, including two productions with composer Stella Sung. You may stream full performances of both of their operas below. Stella Sung’s setting of poems from Hilbert’s book High Ashes, “High Ashes for Baritone and Orchestra,” was performed by the Fox […]| Ernest Hilbert
Retrospective, forward-looking, tonic and toxic, All of You on the Good Earth is a wonder of a book, and Hilbert’s best yet. - Timothy Donnelly, author of The Cloud Corporation| Ernest Hilbert
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“Moved by beauty, attuned to the sublimity of natural things, livened by paradox, coaxed into song by pentameter, Ernest Hilbert’s rich new book covers more emotional ground than a reader has any right to expect.” – Rowan Ricardo Phillips, author of When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness “BRUTAL AND YET BEAUTIFUL”: CALIGULAN BY ERNEST HILBERT HILBERT, Ernest. […]| Ernest Hilbert
“Amazing and innovative . . . The music is variegated and fascinating, by turns vicious and lovely . . . [it does] what art should do: change things. Elegies & Laments will change you, too.” - Literary Magnet| Ernest Hilbert
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| Ernest Hilbert