Jane hirshfield poems and biography

Jane Hirshfield's poems have been described by the Washington Post as belonging “among the modern masters”. Her nine poetry books include Ledger (Knopf, 2020), The Beauty (Knopf, 2015), long-listed for the National Book Award; Given Sugar, Given Salt (HarperCollins, 2001), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and After, short-listed for the T.S.

Eliot Prize and named a “best book of 2006” by the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Financial Times. Her other books include two collections of essays: Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry (1997) and Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World (2015), and four books of translations: The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Komachi & Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Japanese Court (Vintage Classics, 1990); Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women (Vintage Classics, 1994); Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems (with Robert Bly); and The Hea