Midwestern poet Edward Hirsch was fascinated by the diaries of women who settled the prairies. He read heartbreaking accounts of loneliness and families scraping by as they hacked out a life on land that was formerly hunted and settled by Indigenous peoples.
This poem, "Ocean of Grass," was collected in Hirsch's book, On Love, about which James Longenbach of the the Yale Review wrote, "However conversant with the abyss, however true to the devastating logic of desire, the poems ultimately feel triumphant. They are held aloft by nothing but their own joyous artistry.”
Chania Hudson reads an introduction to offer context and background on the poet and the poem.
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