The Asking: New & Selected Poems by Jane Hirshfield
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION SPRING 2024 Matthew Welton Each poem is presented first

Each poem is presented first in the original

“Like a Dylan Thomas of the age of mental illness

His poetry is a marvel of syncretism: Billie Holiday

a transformation into something rich and strange

The Asking: New & Selected Poems by Jane Hirshfield<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION SPRING 2024</b> Matthew Welton Each poem is presented firstJane 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