"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.Hers is a poetry of clarity and hybrid vigour, drawing
deeply on English and American traditions but also those of world
poetry. The poetries of modern and classical Greece, of Horace and
Catullus, of classical China and Japan and Eastern Europe all resonate
in Jane Hirshfield’s structures of thought and in her sensibilities.
Indelibly of our time yet seated in the lineage of poetic discovery,
these poems are meant to endure.Bloodaxe published her retrospective
Each Happiness Ringed by Lions in 2005, followed by After in 2006
(which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize), Come, Thief in 2011
and The Beauty in 2016.‘Jane Hirshfield’s poems praise the
ceaseless mutability of life as its central splendor…with habits of
perception quite different from what our poetry customarily offers’
– William Matthews‘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,
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Selected Poems
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ISBN
9781780374055
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloodaxe Books
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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