I stopped. are not my own person, Jane Hirshfield doesn't just write some of the finest poetry being published at this moment, she is also a great explicator and celebrator of poems. What are the parts of our body and mind—seen and unseen, weighed and unweighable—that render us who we are? In Ten Windows, she argues that since language has power and poetry is uniquely powerful language, poems can indeed change the world. She has edited and cotranslated four books presenting the work of poets from the past and is the author of two major collections of essays, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry and Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, + No Import Fees Deposit & $8.98 Shipping to United Kingdom. sometime between Hirshfield follows this line of thinking in several other pieces, including one of my favorites from the collection, “Like the Small Hole by the Path-Side Something Lives In”: Like the small hole by the path-side something lives in, Please try again. rhythm of wings at the door of the hive There too must be machines insisting the universe rests on the back of a turtle. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. missing birds once feasted on and feasting. . JANE HIRSHFIELD is the author of eight books of poetry, including The Beauty; Come, Thief; After; and Given Sugar, Given Salt.She has edited and cotranslated four books presenting the work of poets from the past and is the author of two major collections of essays, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry and Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World. the tongues of bells, well built, well traversed. Yet I must admit, I didn’t entirely appreciate the rawness and unpredictability of these poems at first. All Rights Reserved, The Art of Losing: Love Lives of Elizabeth Bishop, Volume 5, Issue 1: SPECIAL ISSUE: Kat Galloway Retrospective, Re-visiting the West: Susan Kay Anderson’s “Mezzanine”, Review of Dear Z: The Zygote Epistles by Diane Raptosh. With TEN WINDOWS Jane Hirshfield, one of this planet’s premier poets, has left her indelible mark on literature-- even if she never produces another book of prize-winning poems. Barred from form, barred from bars, Ms. Hirshfield has a total mastery of her subject. These are minor quibbles of taste or choice, though, and I'm hardly in a position to challenge what she chose. standing with their whole attention. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. In the first paragraph of the essay, “Close Reading: Windows,” for instance, we see what could be her defense for the discursive wonder inherent in her own work: “Many good poems have a kind of window-moment in them—they change their direction of gaze in a way that suddenly opens a broadened landscape of meaning and feeling. She has edited and cotranslated four books presenting the work of poets from the past and is the author of two major collections of essays, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry and Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World. Hirshfield has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Academy of American Poets. nor the fates of, The selections are uniformly terrific, and many were unknown to me. I have been a fan of Hirshfield’s for well over a decade now, and have grown accustomed to the careful way she constructs her poems, placing every word with unparalleled precision on the page. While this poem captures one such opening, it is seems ultimately to be about “dissolution,” the way the essence of that crow “enters the leaves, enters the bark,” marking its presence even when it has gone, just as “stirred-in honey” sweetens tea as it becomes one with the hot liquid. or 541-962-3672, Copyright © Eastern Oregon University 2020. 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. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. « The Art of Losing: Love Lives of Elizabeth Bishop | Review of Winterkill by Todd Davis », Eastern Oregon University was beauty. Please try again. They eat of me. This is an important book to own and I recommend it wholeheartedly. And what, the physicist To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Disparate elements are brought together to see if they might make a viable new whole.” I know of no other more worthy goal for an already accomplished poet than to let her work evolve and take on new forms—to discover a whole new species of poem never before written quite like this. 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. Hirshfield is a wonderful guide through poems, Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2015. in me are lives I do not know the names of. The scene she describes here is, of course, a kind of death, an end to the rhythm of the bees’ daily work. She goes on in this same vein: “Cognitive and creative discoveries are made in the same way as much of biological life is: by acts of generative recombination. A noisy crow call lowers and lifts its branch, like loud ideas with tungsten bits that grind the day. She goes on masterfully, speaking of this other complex world both on and within our bodies: There too have been the hard extinctions, Hirshfield’s subject in so many of her past poems has been the openings or gaps between things. This is the rationale for her prolonged consideration of various motifs such as paradox, surprise, and other matters. Tuneless, keyless, . Unable to add item to List. a cloverleaf crossing To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World. La Grande, OR Once again, the poet invites us to imagine ourselves, alongside her, as vaster and more intricate, more spacious than we might ever have thought. Her choice from Pessoa seemed stronger. whose throat knows no aging Whether speaking of the universe, or the universe that surely encompasses each of our bodies, Hirshfield suggests again and again that there are worlds stacked upon worlds in us, with countless inhabitants who are separate worlds unto themselves. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Her 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 The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Amazon, and Financial Times; and they have won the California Book Award, the Poetry Center Book Award, and the Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Poetry. There was the delight of seeing from time to time that she had picked one of my own favorites, and the wonderful selection of haiku and other translated poetry that was new to me and very rewarding. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. If you are interested in poetry and particularly if you write poetry, this is an important book to own. JANE HIRSHFIELD is the author of eight books of poetry, including The Beauty; Come, Thief; After; and Given Sugar, Given Salt. . Wanted closer in every direction. Please try your request again later. Ninety percent of my cells, they have discovered, . She only confesses that she, who has “not known bombardment,” was nevertheless caught off-guard by “each bell-stroke released without memory/or judgment, unviolent, untender. they are other beings inside me. Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a service we offer sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's fulfillment centers, and we directly pack, ship, and provide customer service for these products. Knopf, 2015 $19.94 (hardback) by James Crews. There is a wonderful chapter on Basho and haiku poetry that provides an informative account of the poet's life and travels as well as the processes of his poems. As she points out in another essay from Ten Windows, “Seeing through Words”: “Awareness of the mind’s movements makes clear that it is the mind’s nature to move.” This new book offers exuberant evidence of what happens when a poet decides to follow her mind’s and body’s many twists and turns, for as she goes on to say in that same essay, “Feeling within ourselves the lives of others (people, creatures, plants, and things) who share this world is what allows us to feel as we do at all.” Why else write or read poetry, if not to widen our already capacious selves and tap into our capacity for greater imagination and empathy? tempered glass and Saran Wrap. to preserve against time. Something went wrong. Happily, Hirshfield never quite explains. Her trademark meticulousness is still present in this new volume, but when you’ve followed a writer through book after book, you begin to grow somewhat possessive of her work and distinctive style; even the slightest alterations, on first blush, can be unsettling. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. nor the hungers of or what they eat. Moments like these, however, are the rare exception in an otherwise exceedingly beautiful and challenging book. I was an English literature major at Harvard, was married to a best-selling novelist for forty-five volatile years, have published three editions of a legal treatise, and three volumes of prose-poetry. . Ten Windows 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.

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