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The Beauty: Poems, Hirshfield, Jane, 9780385351072
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385351070
ISBN-13
9780385351072
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201568129
Product Key Features
Book Title
Beauty : Poems
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Women Authors, Subjects & Themes / Inspirational & Religious, General, American / General
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Poetry
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
11.4 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2014-025831
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Throughout The Beauty, her gracefully evocative eighth book of poems, Hirshfield is archly witty and riddling. In "My Skeleton," for example, she offers a fresh and startling look at our relationship with our bodies, a subject rooted in her fascination with perception, science, and underlying structures of all kinds. Her succinct and arresting observations--often framed within such everyday moments as waking in the morning and sitting in a kitchen, and inspired by the subtle wonders of honey, cellophane, church bells, even the journey of a common cold--swerve suddenly and exhilaratingly onto metaphysical terrain. Her pithy and disarming lyrics have a touch of Dickinson about them as she sets human dilemmas within nature's perpetual surge: "Generation. / Strange word: both making and passing." Hirshfield's contemplative acuity, erudite imagination, and exceptional fluency in image and language make for a beautifully agile and sage volume." -- Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review) " The Beauty , Jane Hirshfield's eighth collection, reveals a poet at the height of her powers. With her signature use of deceptively simple images and language, she hints at the unspoken truths that lie just beyond our perspective while celebrating the everyday details and connections that make a life. . . While many of these poems are brief, they are masterpieces in miniature. Their images are simple but not obvious; they are offered without judgment. They also reward contemplation. Hirshfield asks her readers to wait for their own reactions, suggesting that those reactions matter because they open the door to the poem's meaning, and because they unite us all. --Jeanette Zwart, Shelf Awareness A Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week
Dewey Decimal
811/.54
Synopsis
The Beauty, an incandescent new collection from one of American poetry's most distinctive and essential voices, opens with a series of dappled, ranging "My" poems--"My Skeleton," "My Corkboard," "My Species," "My Weather"--using materials sometimes familiar, sometimes unexpected, to explore the magnitude, singularity, and permeability of our shared existence. With a pen faithful to the actual yet dipped at times in the ink of the surreal, Hirshfield considers the inner and outer worlds we live in yet are not confined by; reflecting on advice given her long ago--to avoid the word "or"--she concludes, "Now I too am sixty. / There was no other life." Hirshfield's lines cut, as always, directly to the heart of human experience. Her robust affirmation of choice even amid inevitability, her tender consciousness of the unjudging beauty of what exists, her abiding contemplation of our moral, societal, and biological intertwinings, sustain poems that tune and retune the keys of a life. For this poet, "Zero Plus Anything Is a World." Hirshfield's riddling recipes for that world ("add salt to hunger"; "add time to trees") offer a profoundly altered understanding of our lives' losses and additions, and of the small and larger beauties we so often miss.
LC Classification Number
PS3558.I694A6 2015
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- o***_ (20)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseProduct received exactly as listed and within listed timeframe. Packaging was sturdy and thoughtful to keep the book from getting damaged in transit. Great seller to work with, thank you for the prompt and easy transaction - recommended seller!The Wild West of Louis L'Amour: An Illustrated Companion to the Frontier Fiction (#135823524763)