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.
Her latest collection, 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. '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. 'Come, Thief is a book of
silences… a deep well full of strength and wisdom' - Dana Jennings,
New York Times. 'Come, Thief is as much the accomplishment of a life
in poetry as it is of a life given to inner investigation of what it
means to be a human being' - Afaa M. Weaver, Orion.
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ISBN
9781780370620
Publisert
2016
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Bloodaxe Books
Språk
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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