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Books by Jane Hirshfield
  | | The Beauty(Reprint) Poems by Jane Hirshfield Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2017 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-345-80685-7, ISBN: 0-345-80685-9 "An incandescent collection from one of American poetry's most distinctive and essential voices The Beauty opens with a series of dappled, ranging "My" poems--"My Skeleton," "My Corkboard," "My Species," "My Weather"--in which Hirshfield uses materials both familiar and unexpected to explore the magnitude, singularity, and permeability of our shared existence. Of her memory, she writes, "Like the small soaps and shampoos / a traveler bri ..." |
 | | Ten Windows(Reprint) How Great Poems Transform the World by Jane Hirshfield Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2017 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-345-80684-0, ISBN: 0-345-80684-0 "A dazzling collection of essays on how the best poems work, from the master poet and popular essayist"Poetry," Jane Hirshfield has said, "is language that foments revolutions of being." In ten eloquent and highly original explorations, she unfolds some of the ways this is done--by the inclusion of hiddenness, paradox, and surprise; by a perennial awareness of the place of uncertainty in our lives; by language's own acts of discovery; by ..." |
 | | After(2nd Edition) Poems by Jane Hirshfield Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2007 by Harper Perennial Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-06-077919-1, ISBN: 0-06-077919-5 "Pub Date: 2007-02-20 Pages: 112 Language: eng Publisher: HarperCollins US An investigation into incarnation. transience. and our intimate connection with all existence. by one of the preeminent poets of her generation" |
 | | Given Sugar, Given Salt(Reprint) Poems by Jane Hirshfield Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2002 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-06-095901-2, ISBN: 0-06-095901-0 "Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: 2002 Pages: 96 Publisher: Harper Perennial In this luminous and the authoritative new collection. Jane Hirshfield presents an ever-Importance of Deepening and altering comprehensions. of human existence in poems utterly the unique As William Matthews once wrote of her work . in their praise of ceaseless mutability as life's central splendor.In poems complex in meaning yet clear in statement and depi ..." |
 | | Nine Gates(1st Edition) Entering the Mind of Poetry, Essays by Jane Hirshfield Paperback, 228 Pages, Published 1998 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-06-092948-0, ISBN: 0-06-092948-0 "A Gate Enables passage between what is inside and what is outside, and the connection poetry forges between inner and outer lives is the fundamental theme of these nine essays. "Nine Gates" begins with a close examination of the roots of poetic craft in "the mind of concentration" and concludes by exploring the writer's role in creating a sense of community that is open, inclusive and able to bind the individual and the whole in a way t ..." |
 | | The Lives of the Heart(1st Edition) Poems by Jane Hirshfield Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 1997 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-06-095169-6, ISBN: 0-06-095169-9 "Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky writes that Jane Hirshfield "approaches the poem in a way that feels exactly right to me: plainly, reverently, intelligently." This is true both in her essays about poetry (see Nine Gates) and in her poems. Her recurrent themes of art, nature, and mystery startle the reader in many of these poems. Take, for example, the intriguingly titled "Lying," which is short enough to quote in its entirety: "He puts his ..." |
 | | Women in Praise of the Sacred(1st Edition) 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women by Jane Hirshfield Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1995 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-06-092576-5, ISBN: 0-06-092576-0 "Zhao. (48-117?) The only woman tohold the post ofofficial historian to the Imperial Court of the Han Dynasty, Pan Zhao (formerly spelled Pan Chao) waswidowed atan early age. She is the most famous woman scholar ofChinese history; ..." |
 | | Hiddenness, Uncertainty, Surprise Three Generative Energies of Poetry (Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry) by Jane Hirshfield Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2008 by Bloodaxe Books ISBN-13: 978-1-85224-797-3, ISBN: 1-85224-797-5 "In this innovative series of public lectures at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the university. The lectures are then published in book form by "Bloodaxe", giving readers everywhere the opportunity to learn what the poets themselves think about their own subject. Jane Hirshfield examines the roles of hiddenness, uncer ..." |
 | | Come, Thief(Reprint) Poems by Jane Hirshfield Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2013 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-375-71207-4, ISBN: 0-375-71207-0 "A revelatory, indispensable collection of poems from Jane Hirshfield that centers on beauty, time, and the full embrace of an existence that time cannot help but steal from our arms. Hirshfield is unsurpassed in her ability to sink into a moment’s essence and exchange something of herself with its finite music—and then, in seemingly simple, inevitable words, to deliver that exchange to us in poems that vibrate with form and expression p ..." |
 | | Come, Thief(1st Edition) Poems by Jane Hirshfield Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2011 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-307-59542-3, ISBN: 0-307-59542-0 "A revelatory, indispensable collection of poems from Jane Hirshfield that centers on beauty, time, and the full embrace of an existence that time cannot help but steal from our arms. Hirshfield is unsurpassed in her ability to sink into a moment’s essence and exchange something of herself with its finite music—and then, in seemingly simple, inevitable words, to deliver that exchange to us in poems that vibrate with form and expression p ..." |
 | | After Poems by Jane Hirshfield Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2006 by Harper ISBN-13: 978-0-06-077916-0, ISBN: 0-06-077916-0 ""Words are not the end of thought, they are where it begins," ends the first poem in After, Jane Hirshfield’s extended investigation into incarnation, transience, and our intimate connection with others and with all existence. These alert, incisive, and compassionate poems examine the human condition through subjects ranging from spareness, possibility, judgment, and hidden grief to global warming, insomnia, the meanings to be found in ..." |
 | | The October Palace(1st Edition) Poems by Jane Hirshfield Paperback, 93 Pages, Published 1994 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-06-096997-4, ISBN: 0-06-096997-0 "Grounded in a series of mediations upon the life of the feeling heart in the world, Jane Hirshfield's long-awaited third collection of poetry explores the ways that radiance dwells most truly in the ordinary, the difficult, and the plain." |
 | | Ecstatic Poems(1st Edition) by Robert Bly, Jane Hirshfield, Sterling Allen Brown Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2009 by Beacon Press Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-6387-3, ISBN: 0-8070-6387-8 "Mirabai is a literary and spiritual figure of legendary proportions. Born a princess in the region of Rajasthan in 1498, Mira (as she is more commonly known) eschewed the marriage her royal family had arranged for her, celebrating instead her right to independence and intense devotion to Krishna in both her life and poetry. In this collection, Robert Bly and Jane Hirshfield, two of America's best poets, have created lively English versi ..." |
 | | Ledger Poems by Jane Hirshfield Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2020 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-525-65780-4, ISBN: 0-525-65780-0 "A book of personal, ecological, and political reckoning from the internationally renowned poet named "among the modern masters" (Washington Post).From one of our most celebrated contemporary poets--long-listed for the National Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and England's T.S. Eliot Prize--comes Jane Hirshfield's Ledger, her most important work yet. From its already much-quoted opening lines of despa ..." |
 | | Nine Gates(1st Edition) Entering the Mind of Poetry by Jane Hirshfield Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 1997 by Harper ISBN-13: 978-0-06-017456-9, ISBN: 0-06-017456-0 "A Gate Enables passage between what is inside and what is outside, and the connection poetry forges between inner and outer lives is the fundamental theme of these nine essays. Nine Gates begins with a close examination of the roots of poetic craft in "the mind of concentration" and concludes by exploring the writer's role in creating a sense of community that is open, inclusive and able to bind the individual and the whole in a way t ..." |
 | | Women in Praise of the Sacred(1st Edition) 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women by Jane Hirshfield, Pan Zhao, Hildegard Of Bingen, Nelly Sachs, Emily.. Dickinson Hardcover, 259 Pages, Published 1994 by Harpercollins ISBN-13: 978-0-06-016987-9, ISBN: 0-06-016987-7 "This groundbreaking anthology presents the spiritual life of women throughout history as recorded in their poems, prayers, and songs. Beginning with the hymns of the world's earliest identified author (a Sumerian moon priestess) and continuing to the first half of the twentieth century, it draws from the major religious traditions of East and West as well as from several indigenous cultures. Among the seventy women included are mystics ..." |
 | | The Asking New and Selected Poems by Jane Hirshfield Hardcover, 369 Pages, Published 2023 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-593-53595-0, ISBN: 0-593-53595-2 "The Asking takes its title from the close of one of its thirty-one new poems: “don’t despair of this falling world, not yet / didn’t it give you the asking.” Interrogating language and life, pondering beauty amid bewilderment and ..." |
 | | Ledger (international Edition) by Jane Hirshfield Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2020 by Bloodaxe Books Ltd, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-1-78037-512-0, ISBN: 1-78037-512-3 "Her poems inscribe a ledger personal and communal, a registry of our time's and lives' dilemmas as well as a call to action on climate change, social justice and the plight of refugees. Ledger is published in the US by Knopf." |
 | | The Beauty Poems by Jane Hirshfield Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2015 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-385-35107-2, ISBN: 0-385-35107-0 "The Beauty, an incandescent new collection from one of American poetry’s most distinctive and essential voices, opens with a series of dappled, ranging “My” poems—“My Skeleton,” “My Corkboard,” “My Species,” “My Weather”—using materials sometimes familiar, sometimes unexpected, to explore the magnitude, singularity, and permeability of our shared existence. With a pen faithful to the actual yet dipped at times in the ink of the surreal ..." |
 | | Ten Windows(1st Edition) How Great Poems Transform the World by Jane Hirshfield Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2015 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-385-35105-8, ISBN: 0-385-35105-4 "A dazzling collection of essays on how the best poems work, from the master poet and essayist. “Poetry,” Jane Hirshfield has said, “is language that foments revolutions of being.” In ten eloquent and highly original explorations, she unfolds and explores some of the ways this is done – by the inclusion of hiddenness, paradox, and surprise; by a perennial awareness of the place of uncertainty in our lives; by language’s own acts of disco ..." |
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