The asking: new and selected poems
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"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 thenreturns 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 avibrant, 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"--
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Hirshfield, J. (2023). The asking: new and selected poems. First edition. New York, Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Hirshfield, Jane, 1953-. 2023. The Asking: New and Selected Poems. New York, Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Hirshfield, Jane, 1953-, The Asking: New and Selected Poems. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
MLA Citation (style guide)Hirshfield, Jane. The Asking: New and Selected Poems. First edition. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
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