The Asking: New & Selected Poems by Jane Hirshfield
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and that which we might idealise

drawing on the extraordinary minutiae of nature and humanity to elevate the marginalised

Faisal Mohyuddin delves into the past of his parents and their neighbours in Pakistan and India in a self-consciously impossible attempt to find some way of belonging to a place that is lost

this particular bird's voice took its time: she didn't become a poet until she was 45

The Asking: New & Selected Poems by Jane Hirshfield<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION SPRING 2024</b> Geomantic  Contemporary WritersJane Hirshfield is a visionary American writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human. Both sensual meditations and passionate investigations of our shared and borrowed lives, they reveal complex truths in language luminous and precise. In an era of algorithm, assertion and induced distraction, Jane Hirshfield's poems bring a much needed awakening response, actively countering narrowness. The Asking includes work from her earlier