The Beauty, by Jane Hirshfield
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Jane Hirshfield is a visionary, profoundly original 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 indispensable to many American readers in navigating their own lives. Bloodaxe published her retrospective Each Happiness Ringed by Lions: Selected Poems in 2005, followed by After in 2006, a Poetry Book Society Choice which was short-listed for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and then Come, Thief in 2011. Jane Hirshfield's latest collection, The Beauty, opens with a series of poems exploring both the profundities and the quirks of our shared human existence. She draws intimate meaning from multiple realms: science, culture, language itself, and above all the luminous materials and minutely particular emotions of daily life. In their robust negotiation with fate and justice, these clear and moving poems open a new and steepened understanding of our lives' full measure of losses, knowledge, and loves.
The Beauty, by Jane Hirshfield- Amazon Sales Rank: #805226 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .28" w x 5.43" l, .20 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 96 pages
Review 'Hirshfield's lucid poems are philosophical and sensuous, concise yet mysterious - Wittily deductive and meta-physically resplendent, Hirshfield's supple and knowing poems reflect her long view, her quest for balance, and her exuberant participation in the circle dance of existence' - Donna Seaman, Booklist. 'Clear-eyed and often numinous poems - a deepening attention to every aspect of human experience, from the dailiness of our lives to the most ineffable moments' - Steven Ratiner, Washington Post. '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 and assured gift - an extraordinary intertwining of cherished detail and passionate abstraction - The poems' realised ambition is wisdom' - Alison Brackenbury, Agenda. 'Poems of quiet wisdom, steeped in a profound understanding of what it it to be human' - The Scotsman.
About the Author Jane Hirshfield 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 first five collections. Her later collections have been published by Bloodaxe in Britain: After (2006), a Poetry Book Society Choice, which was short-listed for the T.S. Eliot Prize; Come, Thief (2012) and now The Beauty (2015). She edited the bestselling anthology Women in Praise of the Sacred (1994), and co-translated The Ink Dark Moon: Poems by Ono No Komachi and Izumi Shikibu (1988) - another bestseller in the States - and, with Robert Bly, Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems (2004). A book of her Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures, Hiddenness, Uncertainty, Surprise, was published by Bloodaxe in 2008.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. My Eyes An hour is not a house, a life is not a house, you do not go through them as if they were doors to another. Yet an hour can have shape and proportion, four walls, a ceiling. An hour can be dropped like a glass. Some want quiet as others want bread. Some want sleep. My eyes went to the window, as a cat or dog left alone does. _______ I Wake Early I wake early, make two cups of coffee, drink one, think, go back to sleep, wake again, think, drink the other. To start a day over is a card game played for no money, a ripe tomato, a swimming cat. Time here: lukewarm, with milk and sugar, big and unset as a table. I wake twice. Twice the window unbroken, transparent. Twice the cat’s nose and ears above water. Twice the war (my war) is distant, its children’s children are distant. _______ Zero Plus Anything Is a World Four less one is three. Three less two is one. One less three is what, is who, remains. The first cell that learned to divide learned to subtract. Recipe: add salt to hunger. Recipe: add time to trees. Zero plus anything is a world. This one and no other, unhidden, by each breath changed. Recipe: add death to life. Recipe: love without swerve what this will bring. Sister, father, mother, husband, daughter. Like a cello forgiving one note as it goes, then another. Excerpted from The Beauty by Jane Hirshfield. Copyright © 2015 by Jane Hirshfield. Excerpted by permission of Knopf, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful. Wake to the wonder of the everyday world By Julie This is an obvious treat for Jane Hirshfield fans, and if you haven't yet read her, it's a wonderful entry point too. The Oregonian has this lovely description of what is so powerful about Hirshfield's poetry:"The danger of familiarity is that it's comfortable. And when something becomes familiar it stops being remarkable. Without the work of mindfulness, the little noticings go first and quietly accumulate in the corner of lost things, that first spring crocus, no, go even closer -- the way the color divides and splays on the petals.When was the last time you looked within three inches of a flower? Children peer, we adults hurry past. Jane Hirshfield's new collection of poetry, "The Beauty," composes the ordinary fruit, in the ordinary kitchen, the ants, the towels, the hopes, the loss, the way we humans believe and lose faith, all of it contained in the hours of every single ordinary day, and renders it beautiful, noticeable."
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful. Poems that grow your soul -- and make it sing By Carol Hewitt This book just came out today and I went to the bookstore (sorry, Amazon) because I couldn't wait -- so many tidbits had been coming out - on Garrison's show, in reviews, in interviews with the poet.As is always the case with Jane Hirshfield poetry, some of them open to me immediately and whisper their story but many stop me, confuse me, make me wonder ... and in the wondering, I feel the tickle of new growth in mind and spirit. I'm a pretty old woman, so tickles of new growth are welcome.The first poem in the book (Fado) is introduced by the poet in a story on the Wall Street Journal's blog - which includes a link to an actual fado (Portuguese song) and both the explication and the music help to open windows into what this poem - and this poet - offer a reader. Amazon, may I include the link?http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2015/03/16/poetry-spotlight-fado-by-jane-hirshfield/
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful. A major accomplishment by a longtime favorite poet By Joe Flower It is daunting to review such a writer, to attempt to apply language to describe her language. Her poetry, here more than ever, carries a more than diamond-like precision to the task of exploring the simple reality of life, and the deep beauty of life. More than diamond-like because the vision is deeply layered, using surprising but dead-certain connections to drop us deeper and deeper into the lovely conundrums of being human.It is always an event in our house when Hirshfield brings out a new volume. This time moreso, as she has taken her game up another notch.
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