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Jane Hirshfield
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Jane Hirshfield was born in 1953 in New York and lives in northern California. Her first book of poetry published in the UK was Each Happiness Ringed by Lions: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2005), which draws on her collections Alaya (1982), Of Gravity & Angels (1988), The October Palace (1994), The Lives of the Heart (1997) and Given Sugar, Given Salt (2001). Her latest collection, After (Bloodaxe Books, 2006), is a Poetry Book Society Choice and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. In 2008 Bloodaxe published Jane Hirshfield's lectures Hiddenness, Surprise, Uncertainly: Three Generative Energies of Poetry (Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures).
Jane Hirshfield edited the bestselling anthology Women in Praise of the Sacred (1994), and cotranslated The Ink Dark Moon: Poems by Ono No Komachi and Izumi Shikibu (1988) – another bestseller in the States – and, with Robert Bly, Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems (2004). Her own poetry was translated into Polish by Czeslaw Milosz, who also wrote the introduction to her Polish Selected Poems. She has won numerous literary awards.
Jane Hirshfield's writing is linked to these
categories:
American Poets
Religious/Spiritual
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