"This is an anthology of poems in the Age of Trump—and much more than Trump. These are poems that either embody or express a sense of empathy or outrage, both prior to and following his election, since it is empathy the president lacks and outrage he provokes. There is an extraordinary diversity of voices here. The ninety-three poets featured include Elizabeth Alexander, Julia Alvarez, Richard Blanco, Carolyn Forché, Aracelis Girmay, Don ..."
"... Wendy Call is author of No Word for Welcome, winner of the Grub Street National Book Prize for Nonfiction, and the ... Irma Pineda, and cotranslator of a poetry collection by Mikeas Sánchez. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in many ..."
"Guest-edited by Jane Hirshfield to include both contemporary and historical works for the inaugural edition; co-edited by: Noh Anothai, Wendy Call, Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún and Öykü Tekten."
The Asking New and Selected Poems by JaneHirshfield 369 Pages, Published 2023 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-593-53596-7, ISBN: 0-593-53596-0
"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 ..."
The Asking New and Selected Poems by JaneHirshfield 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 Poems by JaneHirshfield 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 ..."
Ledger (international Edition) by JaneHirshfield 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."
Ledger Poems by JaneHirshfield 128 Pages, Published 2020 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-525-65781-1, ISBN: 0-525-65781-9
"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 ..."
The Beauty(Reprint) Poems by JaneHirshfield 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 ..."
A Kerosene Beauty Twelve Environmental Elegiacs by JaneHirshfield 48 Pages, Published 2017 ISBN-13: 978-0-9882179-5-9, ISBN: 0-9882179-5-3
""[A] collection of new, unpublished poems written by award-winning poet, essayist, and translator Jane Hirshfield."
Ten Windows(Reprint) How Great Poems Transform the World by JaneHirshfield 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 ..."
"Collins, Steven, Nirvana and Other Buddhist Felicities (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1998). Dhammapada, The: The Sayings of the Buddha, trans.
and ed. Thomas Byrom (Boulder, Colorado: 1993). Ende, Michael, Momo, trans. J
. Maxwell Brownjohn, (London: Penguin, 1986). Ende, Michael, The Neverending
Story, trans. Ralph Mannheim (London: Allen Lane, 1983). Evans-Pritchard, E. E.,
The Nuer (New York: Oxford University Press, 19 ..."
The Beauty by JaneHirshfield Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2015 by Bloodaxe Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-78037-246-4, ISBN: 1-78037-246-9
"Jane Hirshfield is a visionary, profoundly original American writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human. Both sensual meditations and passionate investigations, they reveal complex truths in language luminous and precise. Rooted in the living world, her poems celebrate and elucidate a hard-won affirmation of our human fate. Born of a rigorous questioning of heart, spirit and mind, they have become indispensable to m ..."
The Beauty Poems by JaneHirshfield 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 ..."
The Beauty Poems by JaneHirshfield 128 Pages, Published 2015 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-385-35108-9, ISBN: 0-385-35108-9
"Also by Jane Hirshfield POETRY Come, Thief After Given Sugar, Given Salt The
Lives of the Heart The October ... Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry
TRANSLATIONS The Heart of Haiku (with Mariko Aratani) Mirabai: Ecstatic
Poems (with ..."
Ten Windows(1st Edition) How Great Poems Transform the World by JaneHirshfield 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 ..."
"What does it mean to eat with grace? The writers whose essays and poems are collected here have many answers, but they all come back to something essential: connection-with each other, with our inner selves, with the earth that sustains us. Whether foraging, baking, or gardening, digging their hands into the soil of their backyards or being seduced by the exotic fruits of a far-off place, these writers praise the sensuous and spiritual ..."