Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World

Name: Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World
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ISBN: 9780345806840

by Jane Hirshfield

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A dazzling collection of essays on how the best poems work, from the master poet and popular essayist

"Poetry," Jane Hirshfield has said, "is language that foments revolutions of being." In ten eloquent and highly original explorations, she unfolds some of the ways this is done--by the inclusion of hiddenness, paradox, and surprise; by a perennial awareness of the place of uncertainty in our lives; by language's own acts of discovery; by the powers of image, statement, music, and feeling to enlarge in every direction. Closely reading poems by Dickinson, Bashō, Szymborska, Cavafy, Heaney, Bishop, and Komunyakaa, among others, Hirshfield reveals how poetry's world-making takes place: word by charged word. By expanding what is imaginable and sayable, Hirshfield proposes, poems expand what is possible. Ten Windows restores us at every turn to a more precise, sensuous, and deepened experience of our shared humanity and of the seemingly limitless means by which that knowledge is both summoned and forged.

Publisher:: Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN:: 9780345806840
Binding:: Paperback
Pages:: 320
Authors:: Jane Hirshfield
Published Date:: 2017-02-21
Language:: English

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About Jane Hirshfield

Jane Hirshfield received her BA from Princeton University in its first graduating class to include women, and her first poem appeared in The Nation in 1973. Given Sugar, Given Salt (HarperCollins, 2001) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The Beauty (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015) was longlisted for the National Book Award. Later volumes include Ledger (Knopf, 2020) and The Asking: New & Selected Poems (Knopf, 2023). She has written two essay collections and co-translated four books gathering the work of poets from the distant past. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.

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