Ten Windows

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A dazzling collection of essays on how the best poems work, from the master poet and popular essayist
“Poetry,” Jane Hirshfield has said, “is language that foments revolutions of being.” In ten eloquent and highly original explorations, she unfolds some of the ways this is done–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. Closely reading poems by Dickinson, Bashō, Szymborska, Cavafy, Heaney, Bishop, and Komunyakaa, among others, Hirshfield reveals how poetry’s world-making takes place: word by charged word. By expanding what is imaginable and sayable, Hirshfield proposes, poems expand what is possible. Ten Windows restores us at every turn to a more precise, sensuous, and deepened experience of our shared humanity and of the seemingly limitless means by which that knowledge is both summoned and forged.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0345806840
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Knopf; Reprint edition (21 February 2017); Christina Gladhill; privacy@globepequot.com
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780345806840
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0345806840
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 221 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.75 x 2.16 x 18.87 cm
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ India
Net Quantity ‏ : ‎ 251.00 Grams
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Best Sellers Rank: #102,021 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #640 in Essays (Books) #1,387 in Literary Theory, History & Criticism #5,380 in Biographies, Diaries & True Accounts
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