Jane Hirshfield

Each Happiness Ringed by Lions (eBook, ePUB)

Selected Poems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"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. 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 and classical Greece, of Horace and Catullus, of classical China and Japan and Eastern Europe all resonate in Jane Hirshfield's structures of thought and in her sensibilities. Indelibly of our time yet seated in the lineage of poetic discovery, these poems are meant to endure. Bloodaxe published her retrospective Each Happiness Ringed by Lions in 2005, followed by After in 2006 (which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize), Come, Thief in 2011 and The Beauty in 2016. 'Jane Hirshfield's poems praise the ceaseless mutability of life as its central splendor...with habits of perception quite different from what our poetry customarily offers' - William Matthews 'Hirshfield's lucid poems are philosophical and sensuous, concise yet mysterious... Wittily deductive and metaphysically 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"

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloodaxe Books
• Seitenzahl: 245
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780374055
• Artikelnr.: 47459597

Autorenporträt

¿Jane Hirshfield was born in 1953 in New York City and received her A.B. from Princeton University in 1973. She has lived in northern California since 1974. In 2005 Bloodaxe Books published Each Happiness Ringed by Lions: Selected Poems, her first British publication, drawing on ¿ve award-winning American collections: Alaya (1982), Of Gravity & Angels (1988), The October Palace (1994), The Lives of the Heart (1997) and Given Sugar, Given Salt (2001). This was followed by three later collections from Bloodaxe in the UK: After (2006), a Poetry Book Society Choice shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize; Come, Thief (2012); and The Beauty (2015). In 2008 Bloodaxe and Newcastle University published Jane Hirshfield's Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures, Hiddenness, Surprise, Uncertainty: Three Generative Energies of Poetry. She has also published two collections of essays, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry, (HarperCollins, 1997) and Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World (Knopf, 2015), and has edited and served as co-translator for several acclaimed and much reprinted volumes collecting the work of women poets of the past: The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan (Scribner's, 1988; Vintage Classics, 1990); Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women (HarperCollins, 1994); and Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems (Beacon Press, 2004). Her own poetry has been translated into Polish by Czeslaw Milosz (among others), who also wrote the introduction for her bestselling Polish Selected Poems, published by Znak in 2002. She has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, at Bennington College and elsewhere, and has held many residencies. She has had fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Academy of American Poets. In 2012 she was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.