Ten Windows. How Great Poems Transform the World.
Language: English
Published by Alfred A Knopf Borzoi, New York City, 2017
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Common reader on the pleasures of poetry and how poetry ‘counters isolation and loneliness’ . Deep reading in the rich music and vision of poetry. 10 Chapters. Essays on poetry. First paperback edition. 300 pages of text. Acknowledgements, Permissions. Condition: Text as new except for a few underlines on pages 26-27. Cover image : St. Augustine in His Study (detail) by Vittore Carpaccio. S.Giorgio degli, Venice, Italy. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson . Includes 9 B&W photographs as Illustration.
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- Title
- Ten Windows. How Great Poems Transform the World.
- Author
- Jane Hirschfield
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knopf Borzoi, New York City
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0345806840
- ISBN 13
- 9780345806840
- Illustrator
- Multiple. Photographs
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 5 inches width by 7.5 inches height by 1 inch depth
- Seller catalogs
- First Editions, Poetry, Women Authors
A dazzling collection of essays on how the best poems work, from the master poet and popular essayist <p/>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.
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About the Author
JANE HIRSHFIELD is the author of eight books of poetry, including The Beauty; Come, Thief; After; and Given Sugar, Given Salt. She has edited and cotranslated four books presenting the work of poets from the past and is the author of two major collections of essays, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry and Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World. Her books have been finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award and England's T. S. Eliot Prize; they have been named best books of the year by The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Amazon, and Financial Times; and they have won the California Book Award, the Poetry Center Book Award, and the Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Poetry. Hirshfield has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Academy of American Poets. Her poems appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Times Literary Supplement, Poetry, The New Republic, and eight editions of The Best American Poetry. A resident of Northern California since 1974, she is a current chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
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