Hilbert lives with his wife in Philadelphia, where he works as a rare book dealer. His spoken word album, Elegies & Laments (2013), includes tracks of Hilbert’s poems backed by his band, Legendary Misbehavior. Hilbert’s work has been included in The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets (2009), and he has collaborated with composers such as Daniel Felsenfeld, Stella Sung, and Christopher LaRosa. From elegant leather-bound editions to whimsical pop-up books to the. began work as librettist for a new opera with Stella Sung titled The Book Collector. Editors of Thunder Bay Press, Editors of Canterbury Classics, Hilbert, Ernest. He has also served as editor of both the Contemporary Poetry Review and Random House’s magazine Bold Type. Ernest Hilbert is an American poet, critic, opera librettist. Hilbert founded the Oxford Quarterly and E-Verse Radio. As poet and critic Adam Kirsch noted of the poems in Sixty Sonnets, “In these sonnets, whose dark harmonies and omnivorous intellect remind the reader of Robert Lowell’s, Hilbert is alternately fugitive and connoisseur, hard drinker and high thinker.” Hilbert’s second collection, All of You on the Good Earth (2013), returns to his idiosyncratic, highly inventive sonnet form. Ernest Hilbert s third collection of poems, Caligulan, is at once terrifying and touching, a book haunted by the poet s many affections and angers, its poems animated by horror films, military history, science fiction novels, heavy metal and opera, crime and religion, economic injustice and the natural world. ![]() A skillful practitioner of form and nuance, Hilbert shifts between delicately sonic moments and humorous narrative sequences. ![]() In his debut collection, Sixty Sonnets (2009), Hilbert establishes a variation on the sonnet form, employing an intricate rhyme scheme and varied line length. Catherine’s College of Oxford University, where he studied with James Fenton and Jon Stallworthy. Born in Philadelphia and raised in southern New Jersey, poet, critic, and editor Ernest Hilbert received a BA from Rutgers University and a PhD in English literature from St.
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