Hirshfield, Jane
Summary: Collects poetry that explores such diverse topics as global warming, sneezing, and our relationship to certainty, possibility, judgment, and grief, while reflecting on the influence of time on human life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.1 HIRHirshfield, Jane
Summary: "The Asking opens with new and urgent poems by Jane Hirshfield, in which she faces again the contradictions that have shaped her work: "Some take/ in witnessed suffering, pleasure," she writes. "Some make, of witnessed suffering, beauty." The volume then returns to the beginning, carrying us from her earliest volumes (including Of Gravity and Angels; Given Sugar, Given Salt; and After), up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloodaxe Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 HIRHirshfield, Jane
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1994