Mining the depths of loss, faith and mortality
By Dwight Garner New York Times News Service | China Daily | Updated: 2014-09-17 08:43
Lord of the Torrent, King of the Sudden Impulse, Emperor of the Impetuous, Clown of God.
The poet Edward Hirsch's son, Gabriel, was a handful, and the author and others had many private names for him.
Did Gabriel have Tourette's syndrome, autism, bipolar disorder or something else entirely? It was hard for doctors to say. He was the kind of child, Hirsch writes in Gabriel, his new book-length poem, who "could almost fly a kite when there was no wind":
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