Jane Hirshfield
Jane Hirshfield's poetry, called "radiant and passionate" by the New York Times Book Review, expresses the multiple interconnections within both the human and natural worlds. Through five collections of poems, her work has addressed the life of the passions, the way the objects and events of everyday life are informed by deeper wisdoms, and the ways that even the darknesses and losses of a life can be affirmed. Hirshfield's readers say that her poetry changes lives, creating moments of opening through which an expanded knowledge of the world may appear. Her thoughts about poetry are equally probing: Hirshfield's collected essays on "the mind of poetry" have been called by The Japan Times "an indispensable manual for any writer"; Ploughshares magazine has said that Hirshfield's prose "reinvigorates our thinking about art" and called Nine Gates "surely one of the most eloquent books ever written about poetry." In addition, by compiling two widely read anthologies collecting the work of women poets from the past, Hirshfield has helped create a widened awareness of the long literary record of women's spiritual and emotional lives. As writer, public reader, and teacher, Hirshfield demonstrates an intimate and profound mastery of her art. A former visiting associate professor at UC Berkeley, Elliston Visiting Poet at the University of Cincinnati, and member of the Bennington College MFA faculty, she has served as a guest poet at universities, summer conferences, and writers centers throughout the country.
"Hirshfield's poems renew, reaffirm the power of language to move deeply, to articulate experience precisely . . . Her poems are meant to endure."
--- The Antioch Review
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Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry by Jane Hirshfield