Given Sugar Given Salt

<p><strong>Hirshfield's are the kind of poems that could--before you even realize it--have quietly changed your life.--<em>O Magazine</em></strong></p><p>In this luminous and authoritative collection Jane Hirshfield presents an ever-deepening and altering comprehension of human existence in poems utterly unique as William Matthews once wrote of her work in their praise of ceaseless mutability as life's central splendor.</p><p>Hirshfield explores questions of identity aging death and of time and the variegated gifts brought by its relentless passage. Whether meditating upon a button the role of habit in our lives or the elusive nature of our relationship to sleep Hirshfield brings each subject into a surprising and magnified existence.</p>