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Jane Hirshfield: An Afternoon with the Poet

In verse called "radiant and passionate" by the New York Times, Jane Hirshfield's four collections of poetry articulate the interconnection of human and natural worlds. Tune in for this reading before an audience at UC Santa Barbara.

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Jane Hirshfield
2008
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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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The Slow Joy of Jane Hirshfield’s Ledger

“IT’S SUCH A SLOW JOY,” says poet Jane Hirshfield, about the work of revising a poem. We’ve just left the trailhead for a hike on what she calls the “hem” of Mount Tamalpais.

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Colleen Morton Busch
2020
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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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Jane Hirshfield’s Political Poetry Is Going Viral. She Wishes It Wouldn’t

Jane Hirshfield says environmental concerns began creeping into her poetry as early as her 1988 collection “Of Gravity & Angels,” when she was composing “poems of shared-fate awareness, and poems of the relationship of the biological and human worlds which don’t put human well-being above...

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Jessica Zack
2020
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Gravity, Grace, and What Binds Us: Poet Jane Hirshfield’s Timeless Hymn to Love and the Proud Scars of the Heart

“…and when two people have loved each other see how it is like a scar between their bodies, stronger, darker, and proud…”

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Maria Popova
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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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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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