Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry by Hirshfield (English) Paperback Book

Description: Nine Gates by Hirshfield Poet Jane Hirschfield illuminates the craft and mind of poetry, from the work of anonymous Egyptian love poets to that of Rilke, Dickinson, Yeats, and Ginsberg, and shows poetry as a path to knowledge and transformation in contemporary life. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description "With the exactitude of a surgeon and the sensuous attention of a chef, Hirshfield addresses, essay by essay, the art, craft, and act of making poetry . . . These essays are both brilliantly ambitious--one random passage in her last piece, on writing and the threshold life, flows 14th-century Japanese poet Ono no Komachi (whose poems she has translated in the past) into Czeslaw Milosz into Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman--and confidently clear." -- Village VoiceNine essays on the connection poetry forges between inner and outer lives, from esteemed poet and thinker Jame Hirshfield. Nine Gates begins with a close examination of the roots of poetic craft in "the mind of concentration" and concludes by exploring the writers role in creating a sense of community that is open, inclusive and able to bind the individual and the whole in a way that allows each full self-expression. in between, Nine Gates illumines the nature of originality, translation, the various strategies by which meaning unfolds itself in language, poetrys roots in oral memory and the importance of the shadow to good art.Delving into the nature of poetry, Jane Hirshfield also writes on the nature of the human mind, perception and experience. Nine Gates is about the underpinnings of poetic craft, but it is also about a way of being alive in the world: alertly, musically, intelligently, passionately, permeably.In part a primer for the general reader, Nine Gates is also a manual for the working writer, with each "gate" exploring particular strategies of language and thought that allow a poem to convey meaning and emotion with clarity and force. Above all, Nine Gates is an insightful guide to the way the mind of poetry awakens our fundamental consciousness of what can be known when a person is most fully alive. Author Biography The author of five previous poetry collections and a book of essays, Jane Hirshfield has been a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and Englands T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, and she is the winner of the Poetry Center Book Award, the California Book Award, and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, the Los Angeles Times, and multiple volumes of The Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize anthologies. Review "[Hirshfields] nine essays, or "gates," range a wide territory, in often strikingly beautiful language, to consider such objects as concentration, prosody, translation, poetrys roots as an oral art form, and the importance of shadow to art and spiritual life." -- Publishers Weekly"A cross between a readers guide to poetry and a how-to guide for would-be poets, Hirshfields collected essays on poetic understanding read like a series of vigorous, well-documented university guest lectures...With her feet firmly planted in both the Western and Eastern canons, Hirshfield delivers a thorough and timely collection on our relationships to poetry, our relationship to the world and everything in between." -- Publishers Weekly"In the outstanding and lucid critical essays in Nine Gates, Hirshfield proves that she, like all good poets, is a gifted reader . . . Happily, this enlightening volume does exactly what Hirshfield hoped it would: it intensifies our response to poetry, hence to life." -- Booklist (starred)"Jane Hirshfield dares to write about the mysteries of art, and she approaches them in a way that feels exactly right to me: plainly, reverently, intelligently. She respects subject matter and gives due weight to both past masters and her own intuition. The result is rare and fine: a collection of essays combining the richness of a daybook with the pointed quality of a good lecture." -- Robert Pinsky, Poet Laureate of the United States"These expansive, fearless essays are on the basics of--not poesy in any small sense--but mind, wit, stalking, silky focus, the eros of knowledge, the steely etiquette of art. For those who want it, heres guidance toward the power of being in the margin, the calm ease of the center." -- Gary Snyder, author of Mountains and Rivers Without End"With the exactitude of a surgeon and the sensuous attention of a chef, Hirshfield addresses, essay by essay, the art, craft, and act of making poetry . . . These essays are both brilliantly ambitious--one random passage in her last piece, on writing and the threshold life, flows 14th-century Japanese poet Ono no Komachi (whose poems she has translated in the past) into Czeslaw Milosz into Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman--and confidently clear." -- Village Voice"These expansive, fearless essays are on the basics of-not poesy in any small sense-but mind, wit, stalking, silky focus the eros of knowledge, the steely etiquette of art. For those who want it, heres guidance toward the power of being in the margin, the calm ease of the center." -- Gary Snyder Description for Teachers/Educators Award-winning poet Jane Hirshfield illuminates the craft and mind of poetry, from the work of anonymous Egyptian love poets to that of Rilke, Dickinson, Yeats and Ginsberg, and shows poetry as a path to knowledge and transformation in contemporary life. A superb primer for the general reader, Nine Gates is also a manual for the working writer, each -gate exploring particular strategies of language and thought that allow the art to convey complex meaning and emotion with clarity and force. By looking closely at poems and how they work, the book offers an extended initiation into the ways the mind reveals itself when it is open, awake, and attentive to inner and outer being. Details ISBN0060929480 Short Title 9 GATES Pages 240 Language English ISBN-10 0060929480 ISBN-13 9780060929480 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 808.1 Year 1998 Subtitle Entering the Mind of Poetry DOI 10.1604/9780060929480 Place of Publication New York, NY Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 1998-08-26 NZ Release Date 1998-08-26 US Release Date 1998-08-26 UK Release Date 1998-08-26 Author Hirshfield Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc Publication Date 1998-08-26 Imprint HarperCollins Audience General Imprint US Harper Perennial Publisher US HarperCollins We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:6549837;

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