{"product_id":"nine-gates-entering-the-mind-of-poetry-9780060929480","title":"Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"With the exactitude of a surgeon and the sensuous attention of a chef, Hirshfield addresses, essay by essay, the art, craft, and act of making poetry . . . These essays are both brilliantly ambitious\u003c\/strong\u003e--\u003cstrong\u003eone random passage in her last piece, on 'writing and the threshold life, ' flows 14th-century Japanese poet Ono no Komachi (whose poems she has translated in the past) into Czeslaw Milosz into Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman\u003c\/strong\u003e--\u003cstrong\u003eand confidently clear.\" -- \u003cem\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNine essays on the connection poetry forges between inner and outer lives, from esteemed poet and thinker Jame Hirshfield. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNine Gates\u003c\/em\u003e begins with a close examination of the roots of poetic craft in \"the mind of concentration\" and concludes by exploring the writer's role in creating a sense of community that is open, inclusive and able to bind the individual and the whole in a way that allows each full self-expression. in between, \u003cem\u003eNine Gates\u003c\/em\u003e illumines the nature of originality, translation, the various strategies by which meaning unfolds itself in language, poetry's roots in oral memory and the importance of the shadow to good art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDelving into the nature of poetry, Jane Hirshfield also writes on the nature of the human mind, perception and experience. \u003cem\u003eNine Gates\u003c\/em\u003e is about the underpinnings of poetic craft, but it is also about a way of being alive in the world: alertly, musically, intelligently, passionately, permeably.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn part a primer for the general reader, \u003cem\u003e Nine Gates \u003c\/em\u003eis also a manual for the working writer, with each \"gate\" exploring particular strategies of language and thought that allow a poem to convey meaning and emotion with clarity and force. Above all, \u003cem\u003eNine Gates\u003c\/em\u003e is an insightful guide to the way the mind of poetry awakens our fundamental consciousness of what can be known when a person is most fully alive.\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":50614783639826,"sku":"9780060929480","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_60517e2d-fd4b-440d-b860-086ff34926e4.jpg?v=1732462825","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/nine-gates-entering-the-mind-of-poetry-9780060929480","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}