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Try to Praise the Mutilated World

By Adam Zagajewski
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Though the world is full of suffering, we can remember its beauty, and praise it.

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The Beauty: Poems

The Beauty opens with a series of dappled, ranging “My” poems—“My Skeleton,” “My Corkboard,” “My Species,” “My Weather”—in which Hirshfield uses materials both familiar and unexpected to explore the magnitude, singularity, and permeability of our shared existence.

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Jane Hirshfield
2017
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Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women

This groundbreaking anthology presents the spiritual life of women throughout history as recorded in their poems, prayers, and songs.

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Jane Hirshfield (editor)
1995
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Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry, Essays

A Gate Enables passage between what is inside and what is outside, and the connection poetry forges between inner and outer lives is the fundamental theme of these nine essays.

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Jane Hirshfield
1998
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Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World

"Poetry," Jane Hirshfield has said, "is language that foments revolutions of being.

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Jane Hirshfield
2017
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Ledger: Poems

Ledger's pages hold the most important work yet by Jane Hirshfield, one of our most celebrated contemporary poets. From the already much-quoted opening lines of despair and defiance ("Let them not say: we did not see it.

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Jane Hirshfield
2025
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Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection

This anthology features poems by Mark Doty, Ross Gay, Donald Hall, Marie Howe, Naomi Shihab Nye and many others. These poets, from all walks of life, and from all over America, prove to us the possibility of creating in our lives what Dr.

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James Crews, Ted Kooser
2019
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