Book description
A precise and passionate collection by a brave new voice in poetry.
"[It] is a rare joy to read Hirshfield's work."--The
Bloomsbury Review JANE HIRSHFIELD's first book, Alaya, received the
Quarterly Review Of Literature Prize in 1982. In 1986, OF Gravity Angels
receive d the Joseph Henry Jackson Award from the San Francisco
Foundation for a book in progress; in 1989, it was awarded the
Commonwealth Club Poetry Medal. Hirshfield's third book The October
Palace, published in 1994, received the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award,
the Commonwealth Club Poetry Medal, and the Poetry Center Book Award.
She has also edited aand co-translated The Ink dark Moon: Poems be
Komachi and Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan (1988) and
edited Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry
by Women (1994). Hirshfield's other honors include a Guggenheim
Fellowship, a Rockerfeller Foundation Bellagio Fellowship, Columbia
University's Translatioon Center Award, and a Pushcart Prize. He has
taught at the University of California at Berkely and the University of
San Francisco and lives in Mill valley, California.
