The Asking: New and Selected Poems -- Jane Hirshfield, Hardcover
In poems that consider the smallest ant and the vastness of time, hunger and bounty, physics, war, and love in myriad forms, this collection--drawing from nine previous books and five decades of writing--brings the insights and slant-lights that come to us only through poetry's arc, delve, and tact; through a vision both close and sweeping; through music-inflected thought and recombinant leap.
With its quietly magnifying brushwork and numinous clarities, The Asking expands our awareness of both breakage's grief and the possibility for repair.
Author: Jane Hirshfield
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 09/12/2023
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.13h x 6.14w x 1.42d
ISBN: 9780593535950
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 09/15/2023 pg. 9
About the Author
Writing "some of the most important poetry in the world today" (New York Times Magazine), Jane Hirshfield is the author of ten collections and is one of American poetry's central spokespersons for concerns of the biosphere. Hirshfield's honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, the Poetry Center Book Award, the California Book Award, and finalist selection for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She's also the author of two now-classic collections of essays on the craft of poetry, and edited and co-translated four books presenting world poets from the deep past. Hirshfield's work, which has been translated into seventeen languages, appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, and ten editions of The Best American Poetry. A former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2019.