the tiny, ımmense, and immeasurable gift

Forty years into her illustrious career as a poet, during which she has published ten poetry collections, including her latest, The Asking: New and Selected Poems, Jane Hirshfield holds a simple hope for the future—that she may be granted the great fortune to write the next poem.

DANUSHA LAMÉRIS

THE poetry of Jane Hirshfield, collected in ten books over the past forty years—starting with Alaya (Quarterly Review of Literature, 1982) and continuing through The Asking: New and Selected Poems, forthcoming in September from Knopf—have brought solace to private darkness and courage to public action; they have borne witness to refugees, terrorism, and our era’s failures and fractures, along with the joys, griefs, and perplexities of the poet’s own life. They have become anthems of biosphere and climate as well as staples at weddings and memorials. In addition to her ten poetry collections, Hirshfield has published two much-treasured collections of essays on poetry’s deep workings, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry (HarperCollins, 1997) and Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World (Knopf, 2015), and four books presenting world…

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