Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World

by Jane Hirshfield

Book Overview

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;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345806840
• ISBN13: 9780345806840
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 7.4"