Edward M. Hirsch is a poet and critic, best known for his bestselling book about reading poetry.Hirsch's first collection, "For the Sleepwalkers," was published in 1081. In total, he has published nine books of poems and five books about poetry.Hirsch taught in the English Department at Wayne State University for six years and in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston for seventeen years. He is president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.