Wild Gratitude

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, American
Cover of the book Wild Gratitude by Edward Hirsch, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Author: Edward Hirsch ISBN: 9780307761989
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: December 11, 2013
Imprint: Knopf Language: English
Author: Edward Hirsch
ISBN: 9780307761989
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: December 11, 2013
Imprint: Knopf
Language: English

An excerpt from the poem, Wild Gratitude:

"Tonight when I knelt down next to our cat, Zooey,
And put my fingers into her clean cat's mouth,
And rubbed her swollen belly that will never know kittens,
And watched her wriggle onto her side, pawing the air,
And listened to her solemn little squeals of delight,
I was thinking about the poet, Christopher Smart,
Who wanted to kneel down and pray without ceasing
In everyone of the splintered London streets,

And was locked away in the madhouse at St. Luke's
With his sad religious mania, and his wild gratitude,
And his grave prayers for the other lunatics,
And his great love for his speckled cat, Jeoffry.
All day today—August 13, 1983—I remembered how
Christopher Smart blessed this same day in August, 1759,
For its calm bravery and ordinary good conscience."

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An excerpt from the poem, Wild Gratitude:

"Tonight when I knelt down next to our cat, Zooey,
And put my fingers into her clean cat's mouth,
And rubbed her swollen belly that will never know kittens,
And watched her wriggle onto her side, pawing the air,
And listened to her solemn little squeals of delight,
I was thinking about the poet, Christopher Smart,
Who wanted to kneel down and pray without ceasing
In everyone of the splintered London streets,

And was locked away in the madhouse at St. Luke's
With his sad religious mania, and his wild gratitude,
And his grave prayers for the other lunatics,
And his great love for his speckled cat, Jeoffry.
All day today—August 13, 1983—I remembered how
Christopher Smart blessed this same day in August, 1759,
For its calm bravery and ordinary good conscience."

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