Volumes of poetry "in the world, we will never see," but poet Jane Hirshfield is "absolutely sure" that the fact these poems even exist "changes the air we breathe and the [world] we live in."
Volumes of poetry "in the world, we will never see," but poet Jane Hirshfield is "absolutely sure" the fact these poems even exist "changes the air we breathe and the [world] we live in."
The Beauty: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015), which was longlisted for the National Book Award, and
Given Sugar, Given Salt (HarperCollins, 2001), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her ninth collection,
Ledger, is forthcoming from Knopf in March 2020. She has edited and cotranslated books with Mariko Aratani and Robert Bly. Hirshfield’s honors include the Poetry Center Book Award, the Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Literature, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, Columbia University’s Translation Center Award, and the Commonwealth Club of California Poetry Medal, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Her work has been selected for seven editions of