# Lay Back the Darkness

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- Book: [Lay Back the Darkness](https://www.bookquiver.com/edward-hirsch/lay-back-the-darkness) ([Lay Back the Darkness.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/edward-hirsch/lay-back-the-darkness.md))
- Authors: [Edward Hirsch](https://www.bookquiver.com/edward-hirsch)
- Publisher: knopf
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-03-0753-699-0
- Published: 2008-12-18
- Language: en_US
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Edward Hirsch’s sixth collection is a descent into the darkness of middle age, narrated with exacting tenderness. He explores the boundaries of human fallibility both in candid personal poems, such...