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23%OFFJane Hirshfield - Each Happiness Ringed by Lions: Selected Poems - 9781852246938 - V9781852246938
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Each Happiness Ringed by Lions: Selected Poems

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Description for Each Happiness Ringed by Lions: Selected Poems Paperback. Jane Hirshfield is a visionary American writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372. Selected Poems. 256 pages. Jane Hirshfield is a visionary American writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 17. Weight: 372.
Jane Hirshfield is a visionary American writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human. Both sensual meditations and passionate investigations, they reveal complex truths in language luminous and precise. Rooted in the living world, her poems celebrate and elucidate a hard-won affirmation of our human fate. Born of a rigorous questioning of heart, spirit and mind, they have become indispensible to many American readers in navigating their own lives. Hers is a poetry of clarity and hybrid vigour, drawing deeply on English and American traditions but also those of world poetry. The poetries of modern ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloodaxe Books
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852246938
SKU
V9781852246938
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About Jane Hirshfield
Jane Hirshfield was born in 1953 in New York and lives in northern California. Her first book of poetry published in the UK was Each Happiness Ringed by Lions: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2005), which draws on her collections Alaya (1982), Of Gravity & Angels (1988), The October Palace (1994), The Lives of the Heart (1997) and Given Sugar, Given ... Read more

Reviews for Each Happiness Ringed by Lions: Selected Poems
Jane Hirshfield is a poet very close to my heart.
Wislawa Szymborska A profound empathy for the suffering of all living beings...It is precisely this that I praise in the poetry of Jane Hirshfield...In its highly sensuous detail, her poetry illuminates the Buddhist virtue of mindfulness.
Czeslaw Milosz
Prze Kroj (Poland)
Her poetry is a rich ... Read more

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