The asking : new and selected poems
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xviii, 343 pages ; 25 cm
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Main Street Lit
Lit 811.54 HIRSHFI
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Lit 811.54 HIRSHFI
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English
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"This is a Borzoi book." -- title page verso.
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Includes index.
General Note
"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.
Description
"The Asking opens with new and urgent poems by Jane Hirshfield, in which she faces again the contradictions that have shaped her work: "Some take/ in witnessed suffering, pleasure," she writes. "Some make, of witnessed suffering, beauty." The volume then returns to the beginning, carrying us from her earliest volumes (including Of Gravity and Angels; Given Sugar, Given Salt; and After), up through the important recent work (Come, Thief; The Beauty; Ledger). We find poems of the smallest ant and the vastness of time, of hunger and bounty, of science and war and love in its myriad forms. Whether it is Hirshfield's insistence on the lessons of the natural world-"The lake scarlets / the same instant as the maple. / Let others try to say this is not passion"-or her facing squarely the depredations of climate and the harm to fellow human beings by our own hands; whether she is assessing what language does for us ("Words are loyal. / Whatever they name they take the side of") or interrogating poetry itself as a vibrant, living medium through which her own debt to creation's splendors must be paid, this poet sets our shared truths in black ink. The Asking, in poems of delicacy and ringing clarity, demands our attention to beauty and injustice equally, enlarging our awareness of breakage as well as the possibility for repair"--,Provided by publisher.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Hirshfield, J. (2023). The asking: new and selected poems (First edition.). Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hirshfield, Jane, 1953-. 2023. The Asking: New and Selected Poems. Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hirshfield, Jane, 1953-. The Asking: New and Selected Poems Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Hirshfield, Jane. The Asking: New and Selected Poems First edition., Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
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