{"product_id":"given-sugar-given-salt-poems-9780060959012","title":"Given Sugar, Given Salt: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Hirshfield's are the kind of poems that could--before you even realize it--have quietly changed your life.\" --\u003cem\u003eO Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this luminous and authoritative collection, Jane Hirshfield presents an ever\u003c\/strong\u003e-\u003cstrong\u003edeepening and altering comprehension of human existence in poems utterly unique, as William Matthews once wrote of her work, in their \"praise of ceaseless mutability as life's central splendor.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHirshfield explores questions of identity, aging, death, and of time and the variegated gifts brought by its relentless passage. Whether meditating upon a button, the role of habit in our lives, or the elusive nature of our relationship to sleep, Hirshfield brings each subject into a surprising and magnified existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHirshfield, Jane:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eThe author of five previous poetry collections and a book of essays, Jane Hirshfield has been a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and England's T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, and she is the winner of the Poetry Center Book Award, the California Book Award, and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations. Her work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e, and multiple volumes of \u003cem\u003eThe Best American Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePushcart Prize\u003c\/em\u003e anthologies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50635122442514,"sku":"9780060959012","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_01121e17-b0d5-4c63-ba8e-f3d15b6613ce.jpg?v=1732833988","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/given-sugar-given-salt-poems-9780060959012","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}