jane hirshfield
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Jane Hirshfield is the author of nine much-honored books of poetry, most recently Ledger (Knopf, 2020). She has also written two now-classic books of essays, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry (HarperCollins, 1997) and Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World (Knopf, 2015), and edited and co-translated four books collecting world poets of the past. Her poems appear in the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, Poetry, and ten editions of The Best American Poetry. A former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Hirshfield was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.
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Paperback • ISBN: 9781632063021
Publication date: Aug 25, 2020