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How Poetry Can Transform Our Lives - Jane Hirshfield - ND3548


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Poetry can play a transformative role in our lives. It gives us an opportunity to ask questions and open up to the unknown. Hirshfield shares her love of poetry, her take on beauty, and she treats us to some of her poems. She takes us into the mind of the poet and reminds us that a reader can benefit from a poem without knowing what the poet is thinking. Jane Hirshfield is the author of nine books of poetry and two collections of essays. She has edited and co-translated four books presenting the work of world poets from the past. Her books have received the Poetry Center Book Award, the California Book Award, and the Donald Hal-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Poetry. Her poems appear in a wide range of prestigious outlets. A resident of Northern California, she is a chancellor emerita of the Academy of American Poets. She presents her work at literary and interdisciplinary events worldwide.


Interview Date: 5/9/2015    Tags: Jane Hirshfield, poetry, poems, The Beauties, beauty, darkness, suffering, amplitude, uncertainty, opening, questions, culture, permeability, listen, Ten Windows, windows, My Skeleton, skeleton, My Sandwich, cottage cheese sandwich, My Task, buildings

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