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Informationen zum Autor Lewis Hyde is a poet, essayist, translator and cultural critic with a particular interest in the public life of the imagination. In addition to The Gift , he is the author of Trickster Makes This World ; Common as Air ; A Primer for Forgetting ; and a book of poems, This Error is the Sign of Love. He has also published two volumes of translations of Nobel laureate Vicente Aleixandre's poetry and is the editor of On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg and The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau . A MacArthur Fellow and former Director of Creative Writing at Harvard University, Hyde was the Richard L. Thomas Professor in Creative Writing at Kenyon College until his retirement in 2018. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife, the writer Patricia Vigderman. lewishyde.com Klappentext An argument for the healing power of letting memories go, combining scholarship, memoir and social criticism to this effect and drawing on ideas from figures diverse as Jorge Luis Borges, Elizabeth Bishop and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Zusammenfassung A playful and melancholy defense of forgetfulness by exploring the healing effect it can have on the human psyche, from the author of The Gift
