{"product_id":"ten-windows-how-great-poems-transform-the-world-paperback","title":"Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJane Hirshfield\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA dazzling collection of essays on how the best poems work, from the master poet and popular essayist\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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. \u003ci\u003eTen Windows\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJANE HIRSHFIELD\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of eight books of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eThe Beauty;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCome, Thief; After; \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGiven Sugar, Given Salt. \u003c\/i\u003eShe has edited and cotranslated four books presenting the work of poets from the past and is the author of two major collections of essays, \u003ci\u003eNine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTen Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World. \u003c\/i\u003eHer 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, \u003c\/i\u003eAmazon, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times; \u003c\/i\u003eand 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 \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Times Literary Supplement, Poetry, The New Republic, \u003c\/i\u003eand eight editions of \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry.\u003c\/i\u003e A resident of Northern California since 1974, she is a current chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 7.4 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 21, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51755598053664,"sku":"9780345806840","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/237f6874fbd41c1c13c58a88e33571f6.webp?v=1780063212","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/ten-windows-how-great-poems-transform-the-world-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}