Ten windows : how great poems transform the world / Jane Hirshfield.

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    • Abstract:
      Summary: "A collection of ten essays by the poet Jane Hirshfield, about reading and understanding poetry, and about the power of poetry"-- Provided by publisher.
    • Content Notes:
      Kingfishers catching fire: looking with poetry's eyes -- Language wakes up in the morning: on poetry's speaking -- Seeing through words: an introduction to Bashō, haiku, and the suppleness of image -- Thoreau's hound: poetry and the hidden -- Uncarryable remainders: poetry and uncertainty -- Close reading: windows -- Poetry and the constellation of surprise -- What is American in modern American poetry: a brief primer with poems -- Poetry, transformation, and the column of tears -- Strange reaches, impossibility, and big hidden drawers: poetry and paradox.
    • Notes:
      5
    • Other Titles:
      10 windows. How great poems transform the world.
    • ISBN:
      9780385351058 :
    • Accession Number:
      2014025430
    • Accession Number:
      886381362
    • Accession Number:
      ccp.961348