"A collection of ten essays by the poet Jane Hirshfield, about reading and understanding poetry, and about the power of poetry"--
In ten eloquent essays, Hirshfield explores poetry. She examines how it forments revolutions of being 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. By examining poems by Dickinson, Bashō, Szymborska, Cavafy, Heaney, Bishop, and Komunyakaa, Hirshfield reveals how poetry's world-making takes place: word by charged word.
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