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Jane Hirshfield

Jane Hirshfield
Jane Hirshfield is the author of ten much honored collections of poetry, including The Asking: New and Selected Poems (2023), two now-classic essay collections, and four volumes presenting and co-translating world poets from the deep past, including The Ink Dark Moon: Poems by Komachi and Shikibu; Mirabi: Ecstatic Poems; Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women; and The Heart of Haiku. Her own work has in turn been translated into seventeen languages. A former chancellor of The Academy of American Poets, she is an elected member of The American Academy of Arts & Sciences.


In Words and Beyond Them: Jane Hirshfield on the Transformative Art of Translation

“The act of translating opens the psyche’s innermost rooms to the unknown.”
April 9, 2024  By Jane Hirshfield
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“I Open the Window,” a Poem by Jane Hirshfield

From Her New Collection, The Asking
September 15, 2023  By Jane Hirshfield
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