Ten Windows

<p><b>A dazzling collection of essays on how the best poems work from the master poet and popular essayist</b><br><br>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; by the powers of image statement music and feeling to enlarge in every direction. Closely reading poems by Dickinson Bash&#333; Szymborska Cavafy Heaney Bishop and Komunyakaa among others Hirshfield reveals how poetry's world-making takes place: word by charged word. By expanding what is imaginable and sayable Hirshfield proposes poems expand what is possible. <i>Ten Windows</i> restores us at every turn to a more precise sensuous and deepened experience of our shared humanity and of the seemingly limitless means by which that knowledge is both summoned and forged.</p>