The Askingone of American poetry's foremost environmental advocates.
A visionary American writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human, Jane Hirshfield's poems are both sensual meditations and passionate investigations of our shared and borrowed lives, they reveal complex truths in language luminous and precise.In an era of algorithm, assertion and induced distraction, Jane Hirshfield's poems bring a much-needed awakening response, actively countering narrowness.
The Asking includes work from her earlier retrospective, Each Happiness Ringed by Lions (2005), as well as drawing upon four later collections, After (2006), Come, Thief (2012), The Beauty (2015) and Ledger (2020), along with a selection of 31 new poems.
The Askingone of American poetry's foremost environmental advocates.
A visionary American writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human, Jane Hirshfield's poems are both sensual meditations and passionate investigations of our shared and borrowed lives, they reveal complex truths in language luminous and precise.In an era of algorithm, assertion and induced distraction, Jane Hirshfield's poems bring a much-needed awakening response, actively countering narrowness.
The Asking includes work from her earlier retrospective, Each Happiness Ringed by Lions (2005), as well as drawing upon four later collections, After (2006), Come, Thief (2012), The Beauty (2015) and Ledger (2020), along with a selection of 31 new poems.
Jane Hirshfield Her honours include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations and from the Academy of American Poets, the Poetry Center Book Award and the California Book Award. In the UK, her collection After, a Poetry Book Society Choice, was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2016. A former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2019. She lives in northern California.
Jane Hirshfield’s poems often feel like whole landscapes,
graciously embracing the widest view and the tiniest sequins at
once . . . Her longtime practice of Soto Zen Buddhism and her
commitments to scientific knowledge and respect blend to create
some of the most important poetry in the world today
*New York Times Magazine*
Hirshfield’s writing is always sensuous and focused: at the same
time, her Zen-influenced deep absorption in things seen and sensed
is often unsettled by a further, philosophical line of inquiry.
This leads to new insights, but not necessarily an easy
resolution.
*Poem of the Week, The Guardian*
The most important measure of anything is its meaning... Hirshfield
perfectly captures our individual sense of lostness, faced with
undeniable catastrophe, while invoking our collective
responsibility.
*The Guardian*
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