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Jane
Hirshfield, Poet and Essayist
Jane Hirshfield is the author of six collections of poetry, including
After, Given Sugar, Given Salt (finalist for the 2001
National Book Critics Circle Award), The Lives of the Heart,
and The
October Palace, as well as a book of essays, Nine Gates:
Entering the Mind of Poetry. She also edited and co-translated The
Ink Dark Moon:
Love Poems by Komachi & Shikibu, Women of the Ancient
Court of Japan, Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries
of Spiritual Poetry by Women , and Mirabal: Ecstatic
Poems. Her book of essays
on the "mind of poetry" and three anthologies recording
the work of women poets from the past are considered classics
in their
fields. Hirshfield has taught at UC Berkeley and Bennington
College and
was awarded the Academy Fellowship for Distinguished Poetic Achievement
by the Academy of American Poets, an honor formerly held by such
poets as Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams,
and Elizabeth Bishop.
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