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After by Jane Hirshfield
Category: Gift
Jane Hirshfield is a visionary 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 affirmati ...Show more
Come, Thief by JANE HIRSHFIELD
Category: Gift
Jane Hirshfield is a visionary 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 affirmati ...Show more
Hiddenness, Uncertainty, Surprise by Jane Hirshfield
Category: Gift | Series: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry S.
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 t ...Show more
LEDGER by HIRSHFIELD JANE
Category: Poetry
A pivotal book of personal, ecological, and political reckoning tuned toward issues of consequence to all who share this world's current and future fate--Some of the most important poetry in the world today (Naomi Shihab Nye, The New York Times Magazine). Ledger's pages hold the most important work yet ...Show more
Ledger - Poems by Jane Hirshfield
Category: Poetry
A pivotal book of personal, ecological, and political reckoning tuned toward issues of consequence to all who share this world's current and future fate--Some of the most important poetry in the world today (Naomi Shihab Nye, The New York Times Magazine). Ledger's pages hold the most important work yet ...Show more
Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World by Jane Hirshfield
Category: Languages and Reference
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 hid ...Show more
Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World by Jane Hirshfield
Category: Poetry
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 hidd ...Show more
The Asking by Jane Hirshfield
Category: Poetry
A long-awaited New and Selected collection by an iconic poet of global standing, assaying the full ranges of our shared and borrowed lives: our bonds of eros and our responsibilities to the planet; the singing dictions and searchlight dimensions of perception; the willing plunge into an existence both p ...Show more
The Asking - New and Selected Poems by Jane Hirshfield
Category: Gift
The Asking draws together a selection of previously published work along with new poems from one of American poetry's foremost environmental advocates. A visionary American writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human, Jane Hirshfield's poems are both sensual meditations and passiona ...Show more
The Beauty by HIRSHFIELD JANE
Category: Gift
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 ...Show more