{"product_id":"come-thief-9780375712074","title":"Come, Thief","description":"A revelatory, indispensable collection of poems from Jane Hirshfield that centers on beauty, time, and the full embrace of an existence that time cannot help but steal from our arms. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHirshfield is unsurpassed in her ability to sink into a moment's essence and exchange something of herself with its finite music--and then, in seemingly simple, inevitable words, to deliver that exchange to us in poems that vibrate with form and expression perfectly united. Hirshfield's poems of discovery, acknowledgment of the difficult, and praise turn always toward deepening comprehension. Here we encounter the stealth of feeling's arrival (\"as some strings, untouched, \/ sound when a near one is speaking. \/ So it was when love slipped inside us\"), an anatomy of solitude (\"wrong solitude vinegars the soul, \/ right solitude oils it\"), a reflection on perishability and the sweetness its acceptance invites into our midst (\"How suddenly then \/ the strange happiness took me, \/ like a man with strong hands and strong mouth\"), and a muscular, unblindfolded awareness of our shared political and planetary fate. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo read these startlingly true poems is to find our own feelings eloquently ensnared. Whether delving into intimately familiar moments or bringing forward some experience until now outside words, Hirshfield finds for each face of our lives its metamorphosing portrait, its particular, memorable, singing and singular name. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove in August\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhite moths\u003cbr\u003eagainst the screen\u003cbr\u003ein August darkness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSome clamor \u003cbr\u003ein envy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSome spread large\u003cbr\u003eas two hands\u003cbr\u003eof a thief \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ewho wants to put \u003cbr\u003eback in your cupboard\u003cbr\u003ethe long-taken silver.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJane Hirshfield\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of six previous collections of poetry, a now-classic book of essays, \u003ci\u003eNine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry, \u003c\/i\u003eand three books collecting the work of women poets from the past. Her awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the Academy of American Poets, and the National Endowment for the Arts; three Pushcart Prizes; the California Book Award; The Poetry Center Book Award; and other honors. Her poems appear regularly in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, The Atlantic, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Poetry \u003c\/i\u003eand have been included in six editions of \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e. Her collection \u003ci\u003eGiven Sugar, Given Salt \u003c\/i\u003ewas a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and \u003ci\u003eAfter\u003c\/i\u003e was named a \"Best Book of 2006\" by \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post, \u003c\/i\u003ethe\u003ci\u003e San Francisco Chronicle, \u003c\/i\u003eand the United Kingdom's \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491700642066,"sku":"9780375712074","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ea9179ca-20d1-466c-8b11-e24fc5a7b6a3.jpg?v=1730550643","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/come-thief-9780375712074","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}