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Author Hirshfield, Jane, 1953-

Title Ten windows : how great poems transform the world / Jane Hirshfield.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.

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 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  808.1 HIRSHFIELD    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  808.1 HIRSHFIELD    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  808.1 HIRSHFIELD    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  808.1 HIR    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  808.12 H61    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  808.1 HIRSHFIELD    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  808.1 H61T    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  808.1 HIRSHFIELD    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  808.1 HI    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description viii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Contents Kingfishers catching fire : looking with poetry's eyes -- Language wakes up in the morning : on poetry's speaking -- Seeing through words : an introduction to Bashō, haiku, and the suppleness of image -- Thoreau's hound : poetry and the hidden -- Uncarryable remainders : poetry and uncertainty -- Close reading : windows -- Poetry and the constellation of surprise -- What is American in modern American poetry : a brief primer with poems -- Poetry, transformation, and the column of tears -- Strange reaches, impossibility, and big hidden drawers : poetry and paradox.
Summary "A collection of ten essays by the poet Jane Hirshfield, about reading and understanding poetry, and about the power of poetry"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Poetry -- History and criticism.
Books and reading.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading.
Poetry.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Title Essays. Selections
ISBN 9780385351058 hardcover : $24.95
0385351054 hardcover
9780385351065 (eBook)
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