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. Bloodaxe published her retrospective Each Happiness Ringed
by Lions: Selected Poems in 2005, followed by After in 2006, a Poetry
Book Society Choice which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize,
and then Come, Thief in 2011. Jane Hirshfield's latest collection, The
Beauty, opens with a series of poems exploring both the profundities
and the quirks of our shared human existence. She draws intimate
meaning from multiple realms: science, culture, language itself, and
above all the luminous materials and minutely particular emotions of
daily life. In their robust negotiation with fate and justice, these
clear and moving poems open a new and steepened understanding of our
lives' full measure of losses, knowledge, and loves. 'Hirshfield's
lucid poems are philosophical and sensuous, concise yet mysterious'
Wittily deductive and metaphysically resplendent, Hirshfield's supple
and knowing poems reflect her long view, her quest for balance, and
her exuberant participation in the circle dance of existence' - Donna
Seaman, Booklist, on Come, Thief
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ISBN
9781780372471
Publisert
2016
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Bloodaxe Books
Språk
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Engelsk
Format
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Digital bok
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