He later served as poetry editor of Random House’s magazine Bold Type and editor of Contemporary Poetry Review. Kennedy as maybe the most arresting sequence we have had since John Berryman checked out of America. He graduated with a doctorate in English Language and Literature from Oxford University, where he edited the Oxford Quarterly. Ernest Hilbert’s debut poetry collection Sixty Sonnets (2009) was described by X.J. It sings." Hilbert's poems have appeared in Yale Review, American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Parnassus, Sewanee Review, Hudson Review, Boston Review, Verse, New Criterion, The New Republic, American Scholar, Hopkins Review, Oxonian Review, and the London Review, as well as several anthologies, including the Swallow Anthology of New American Poets (2009) and two Penguin classroom anthologies, Poetry and Literature (both 2011). Ilya Kaminsky wrote "Last One Out is a very beautiful book. 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 and science-fiction novels, heavy metal and opera, remote wilderness and ruined cities. Condition: Brand New Quantity: More than 10 available Price: US 17. Kennedy as “maybe the most arresting sequence we have had since John Berryman checked out of America.” His second collection, All of You on the Good Earth (2013), has been hailed as a “wonder of a book,” “original and essential,” an example of “sheer mastery of poetic form,” containing “some of the most elegant poems in American literature since the loss of Anthony Hecht.” His third collection, Caligulan (2015), has been called “brutal yet beautiful,” defined by “pleasure, clarity, and discipline,” “tough-minded and precise,” filled with a “stern, witty, and often poignant music,” “a page-turner in a way most poetry books can never be,” and "an honest book for dishonest times." His fourth book, Last One Out, appeared in 2019. Hilbert Ernest Storm Swimmer BOOK NEW Be the first to write a review. ![]() ![]() Ernest Hilbert’s debut poetry collection Sixty Sonnets (2009) was described by X.J.
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