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We are over the moon to welcome acclaimed poet, memoirist, professor, and President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Edward Hirsch to Secret World Books Thursday, March 19 at 7pm in celebration of his latest book My Childhood in Pieces: A Stand-Up Comedy, a Skokie Elegy.Hirsch's comic microbursts of prose deliver a whole childhood, at the hands of an aspiring middle-class Jewish family whose hard-boiled American values and wit were the forge of a poet’s coming-of-age in Skokie.
Affectionate, deadpan, and exuberant, steeped in Yiddishkeit and Midwestern practicality, Hirsch’s laugh-and-cry performance animates a heartbreaking odyssey, from the cradle to the day he leaves home, armed with sorrow and a huge store of poetic wit.
Don't miss the beautiful opportunity to be in the presence of this esteemed poet, author, educator, and Skokie-bred mensch!
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