Over the Edge by Norbert Hirschhorn
It’s a very personal collection inspired by Hirshhorn’s move back to the USA after having divided his time between London and Beirut for quite a few years. Moving to a new place puts things into a new perspective and makes one aware of passing time and can lead to a form of alienation. Themes like these play a role in the first set of poems. In 1944, the Hirschhorn family emigrated from England to the USA, to an apartment in New York. The very personal poems in the 853 Riverside Drive section reflect on this event from the father’s, mother’s and son’s point of view with a lament about the sister who never made it to New York. Aspects of being in exile are being explored in the third section drawing on Hirschhorn’s roots in the Middle East and Finland. This section also features a few poems by his friend Fouad M Fouad, an exile from Aleppo, co-translated from the Arabic. The last section puts everything in a wider perspective based on what’s gone before, different spiritual experiences and memory.
Norbert Hirschhorn is a public health physician, commended in 1993 by President Bill Clinton as an American Health Hero and proud to follow in the tradition of physician-poets. Hirschhorn poems have been published in over three dozen journals, and six full collections. His work has won a number of prizes in the US and UK. Norbert Hirschhorn has published six collections: A Cracked River, Slow Dancer Poetry, 1999 Mourning in the Presence of a Corpse, Dar al-Jadeed, 2008 Monastery of the Moon Dar al-Jadeed, 2012 To Sing Away the Darkest Days - Poems Re-imagined from Yiddish Folk Songs, Holland Park Press, 2013 Stone. Bread. Salt., Holland Park Press, 2018 Once Upon a Time in Aleppo, a bilingual Arabic-English co-translation with Syrian physician-poet Fouad M. Fouad, The Hippocrates Press, 2020 More information is available from his website, www.bertzpoet.com. His memoir, To Heal the World: My Life in Medicine, Poetry, and Public Health is available as an ebook from Sloan Publishing (Cornwall on Hudson, NY), 2022, https://sloanpublishing.com, and from www.bertzpoet.com.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781907320996 |
| ISBN 10 | 1907320997 |
| Title | Over the Edge |
| Author | Norbert Hirschhorn |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Holland Park Press |
| Year published | 2023-06-22 |
| Number of pages | 67 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |