Results for "Hirshfield, Jane"

The long-awaited new and selected collection by the author of “some of the most important poetry in the world today” (The New York Times Magazine), assaying the ranges of our shared and borrowed lives: our bonds of eros and responsibilities to the planet; the singing dictions and searchlight dimensi... Read More about The Asking: New and Selected Poems

Best Literary Translations is a new, annual anthology that celebrates world literatures in English translation and honors the translators who create and literary journals that publish this work. Best Literary Translations 2024 features both contemporary and historical poetry and prose originally wr... Read More about Best Literary Translations 2024

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... Read More about Ledger: Poems

"With the exactitude of a surgeon and the sensuous attention of a chef, Hirshfield addresses, essay by essay, the art, craft, and act of making poetry . . . These essays are both brilliantly ambitious—one random passage in her last piece, on 'writing and the threshold life,' flows 14th-century Japan... Read More about Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry

"Hirshfield's current collection brings together . . . an astonishing array of women writers from the 22nd century BC poet Enheduanna to Nelly Sachs and Anna Akhmatova."— Library Journal "Destined to become a classic. . . . An anthology of women's spirituality on this scale has never been attempted ... Read More about Women in Praise of the Sacred

“Hirshfield’s are the kind of poems that could—before you even realize it—have quietly changed your life.”—O Magazine In this luminous and authoritative collection, Jane Hirshfield presents an ever-deepening and altering comprehension of human existence in poems utterly unique, as William Matthews o... Read More about Given Sugar, Given Salt: Poems