| Edition |
First HarperPerennial edition. |
| Description |
ix, 228 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
"A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1997 by HarperCollins Publishers"--T.p. verso. |
| Summary |
One of America's best-known & most respected poets offers a collection of nine essays that, taken together, constitute an intriguing primer on reading poetry. Just as a gate enables passage from outside to inside, so poetry forges a connection between our outer and inner lives. One who enters completely into the experience of a poem is initiated into a deeper intimacy with life. In this brilliant and lucid series of nine essays, award-winning poet Jane Hirshfield teaches us to open our own gates of perception to recognize and appreciate the poetry in our lives. |
| Contents |
Poetry and the mind of concentration -- The question of originality -- The world is large and full of noises : thoughts on translation -- The myriad leaves of words -- Poetry and the mind of indirection -- Two secrets : on poetry's inward and outward looking -- Facing the lion : the way of shadow and light in some twentieth-century poems -- Poetry as a vessel of remembrance -- Writing and the threshold life. |
| Subject |
Poetics.
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Poetry -- History and criticism.
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| ISBN |
0060929480 |
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9780060929480 |
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