Jane Hirshfield

Jane Hirshfield is the author of nine books of poetry, including The Beauty; Come, Thief; and Given Sugar, Given Salt. She is also the author of two now-classic collections of essays, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry and Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World, and has edited and co-translated four books presenting the work of world poets from the past. Her poems appear in various publications including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. Jane Hirshfield’s poems in Ledger (Knopf) inscribe a registry, both personal and communal, of our present-day predicaments. They call us to deepened dimensions of thought, feeling, and action. They summon our responsibility to sustain one another and the earth while pondering the crises of refugees, justice, and climate, and meditate upon doubt and contentment. Her signature blend of fact and imagination, clarity and mystery, inquiry, observation, and embodied emotion has created a book of indispensable poems. The Guardian (UK) noted that Hirshfield “perfectly captures our individual sense of lostness, faced with undeniable catastrophe, while invoking our collective responsibility.”