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 many American readers in navigating their own lives. Following the publication of her retrospective Each Happiness Ringed by Lions: Selected Poems in 2005, Bloodaxe has published Jane Hirshfield's later collections in the UK: After (2006), a Poetry Book Society Choice which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, Come Thief (2012), The Beauty (2015) and Ledger (2020). Come, Thief centres on the beauty and fragility of our lives, touching on love, science, ageing and mortality, war and the political, the revelatory daily object, and the full embrace of an existence that time cannot help but steal from our arms. Whether delving into intimately familiar moments or bringing forward some experience until now outside words, Hirshfield finds for each facet of our lives its transformative portrait, its particular memorable, singing and singular name.
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Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
Publication Date: 28 Mar 2012
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781852249243
About Jane Hirshfield
Jane Hirshfield was born in 1953 in New York and lives in northern California. Her first book of poetry published in the UK was Each Happiness Ringed by Lions: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books 2005) which draws on her collections Alaya (1982) Of Gravity & Angels (1988) The October Palace (1994) The Lives of the Heart (1997) and Given Sugar Given Salt (2001). This was followed by four later collections After (Bloodaxe Books 2006) a Poetry Book Society Choice which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize Come Thief (Bloodaxe Books 2012) The Beauty (Bloodaxe Books 2015) and Ledger (2020). In 2008 Bloodaxe published Jane Hirshfield's lectures Hiddenness Surprise Uncertainty: Three Generative Energies of Poetry (Newcastle/ Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures). Jane Hirshfield edited the bestselling anthology Women in Praise of the Sacred (1994) and co-translated The Ink Dark Moon: Poems by Ono No Komachi and Izumi Shikibu (1988) another bestseller in the States and with Robert Bly Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems (2004). Her own poetry was translated into Polish by Czeslaw Milosz who also wrote the introduction to her Polish Selected Poems. She has won numerous literary awards.
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