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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
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
Obviously, greatness is something conferred posthumously and by posterity, but the poets here exhibit the right aspirations and reflect how American poetry is constantly evolving in craft, range, and versatility. - PN Review| Ernest Hilbert
1. Ernest Hilbert interviewed by Marty Moss-Coane for “Radio Times” on WHYY/NPR * 2. Ernest Hilbert Interviewed on “Arts Salon” for NPR-Affiliate WDIY (Click here for the full transcript of the recording) * 3. Hilbert talks with Curtis Fox about W.D. Snodgrass for Poetry Foundation podcast (Click here for full transcript of recording) * 4. Ernest Hilbert interviewed along […]| Ernest Hilbert
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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
Hilbert has published essays and reviews on a variety of literary topics and authors, including 18th-century reading habits, mass market horror novels, the history of illustrated dust jackets, hobo literature, The Library of Congress, literary relics, Edward Gorey, illuminated Armenian Gospels, librarian spies in the Second World War, Kevin Young, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, […]| 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
