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Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry

Jane Hirshfield

ISBN 10: 0060929480 / 0-06-092948-0
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Publisher: Perennial
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Softcover
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Just as a gate enables passage from outside to inside, so poetry forges a connection between our outer and inner lives. One who enters completely into the experience of a poem is initiated into a deeper intimacy with life. In this brilliant and lucid series of nine essays, award-winning poet Jane Hirshfield teaches us to open our own gates of perception to recognize and appreciate the poetry in our lives.


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"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, 08/11/1997

 

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