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Poet, essayist, translator

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NY Times Op Ed Poems for April 15 by Jane Hirshfield and others

Apr.16.2012

NY Times Op Ed Poems for April 15 by Jane Hirshfield and others

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/opinion/sunday/at-tax-time-no-accounting-for

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PUBLISHED: Aug.23.2011

Come, Thief

From the front flap: A revelatory, indispensable collection of poems from Jane Hirshfield that centers on beauty, time, and the full embrace of an existence time cannot help but steal from our arms. Hirshfield is unsurpassed in her ability to sink into the moment and exchange something of herself with its finite music—and then, in seemingly simple, inevitable words, to deliver...

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PUBLISHED: Feb.15.2006

After

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PUBLISHED: Feb.01.2001

Given Sugar, Given Salt

“What Hirshfield offers could not overtly be called love poems—and yet they are filled with ecstasy and wonder, the world made new in the fresh light of morning. Here is an all-encompassing love, shucking its reservations, liberated from its object so that it can settle at will on any object: button, clock, suitcase, ink, apple, hummingbird, elephant seal…. Given Sugar, Given Salt...

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PUBLISHED: Feb.01.1997

Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry

Nine essays investigating the deep infrastructure of poetic mind. "This enlightening volume... intensifies our reponse to poetry, hence to life." (Booklist, starred review) "Hirshfield's nine essays, or "gates," range a wide territory, in often strikingly beautiful language, to consider such subjects as concentration, prosody, translation, poetry's roots as...

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PUBLISHED: Feb.01.1997

The Lives of the Heart

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PUBLISHED: Feb.01.1994

Women In Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women

From Publishers Weekly Edited by poet Jane Hirshfield, this anthology collects poetry by women from 43 centuries and many countries that speaks to matters of the spirit, from an Osage woman's planting initiation song ("I have made a footprint, a sacred one") to Maria de' Medici's poem to the virgin ("We mortals reign but over dreams and shadows") to the musings...

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PUBLISHED: Feb.01.1994

The October Palace

“A radiant and passionate collection” --Carol Muske, The New York Times Book Review “Hirshfield’s verbal power lies in a stunning physicality and the seductively rich music that such physicality engenders. She writes for readers who have lived a little, that is to say, a lot; who have lost, and grieved, and know how painful the capacity to love...

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PUBLISHED: Feb.01.1990

The Ink Dark Moon: Poems by Komachi and Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan

Poems by the two foremost women poets of Japanese literature, Ono no Komachi (8th c.) and Izumi Shikibu (11th c.). Predominantly love poems, but with strong Buddhist undercurrents, these five-line, 31 syllable tanka capture the essence of human life, in Heian-era Japan, and today.

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PUBLISHED: Feb.01.1988

Of Gravity & Angels

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PUBLISHED: Feb.01.1988

Of Gravity & Angels

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Apr.17.2012 - 4:51 am

Haiku Foundation winning poems and Judge's Commentary

Below are the winning haiku from The Haiku Foundation's 2012 competition, and my judge's citation for the winner and two runner-ups. The "traditional" category means haiku...

Apr.06.2012 - 8:07 am

Scottish Poetry Library podcast with Jane Hirshfield and Ryan van Winkle

Here's the url for an extended conversation/interview done for the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh, several month before going to read there on April 13, 2012: http://...

Feb.23.2012 - 11:44 am

Poetry After Auschwitz

Theodor Adorno's famous comment, "To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric"... It rises to mind as a perennial barb, a thorn in the flesh of the thumb that holds the pen...

Feb.20.2012 - 10:35 pm

On Poetry & Nature: An Interview

GRANT CLAUSER INTERVIEWposted on:http://poetcore.com/2012/02/20/jane-hirshfield-on-poetry-and-nature/ Jane Hirshfield on Poetry and Nature February 20, 2012 by Grant...

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Essay: THE HEART OF HAIKU

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Oct.30.2011

Come, Thief

Published by Women's Voices for Change

Poetry Sunday: Come, Thief Is Yet Another Triumph for Jane Hirshfield October 30, 2011 by Laura Baudo Sillerman Leave a comment Print Email ShareThisShareThis The titles of her...

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Tassajara Workshop

15 Jul 2012 - 1:38 pm
Monterey County, California

Bread Loaf Writers' Conference

Start: 15 Aug 2012 - 1:41 pm
End: 25 Aug 2012 - 5:30 pm
Middlebury, Vermont

Poems that brilliantly portray even mundane experiences as if they were nothing short of revelation”

—The Washington Post

About Jane

Jane Hirshfield, whose work has been called “passionate and radiant” by the New York Times Book Review, is the author of seven books of poems, most recently Come, Thief (Knopf, 2011) and After (HarperCollins, 2006; Bloodaxe Books (UK), 2006), which was named...

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Jane HirshfieldPoet, essayist, translator

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NY Times Op Ed Poems for April 15 by Jane Hirshfield and others

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Jane Hirshfield
Poet, essayist, translator