Hirshfield, Jane

A collection of poems by award-winning author Jane Hirshfield.

Collection of nine essays that explore the roots of poetics, the writer's role in creating a sense of community, the nature of originality, poetry's roots in oral memory, the various strategies by which meaning enfolds itself in language, and other topics in poetics.

This anthology presents the spiritual life of women throughout history as recorded in their poems, prayers, and songs.

Presents more than one hundred spiritual poems by women, spanning 2300 B.C. through the twentieth century and representing a wide variety of faiths and cultures.

Contains a collection of emotional, spiritual, and erotic poems written by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu during Japan's Heian era, which lasted from 794 to 1185.

A collection of poems in which the author explores questions of human identity, aging, death, loss, and gain.