Ten windows : how great poems transform the world
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
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First paperback edition.
ISBN
0345806840, 9780345806840
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viii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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Kilton Public Library - Nonfiction
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
Format
Book
Edition
First paperback edition.
Language
English
ISBN
0345806840, 9780345806840

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"This is a Borzoi Book."--Title page verso.
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First published in hardcover in 2015.
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A dazzling collection of essays on how the best poems work, from the master poet and popular essayist. "Poetry," Jane Hirshfield has said, "is language that foments revolutions of being." In ten eloquent and highly original explorations, she unfolds some of the ways this is done--by the inclusion of hiddenness, paradox, and surprise; by a perennial awareness of the place of uncertainty in our lives; by language's own acts of discovery; by the powers of image, statement, music, and feeling to enlarge in every direction. Closely reading poems by Dickinson, Bashō, Szymborska, Cavafy, Heaney, Bishop, and Komunyakaa, among others, Hirshfield reveals how poetry's world-making takes place: word by charged word. By expanding what is imaginable and sayable, Hirshfield proposes, poems expand what is possible. Ten Windows restores us at every turn to a more precise, sensuous, and deepened experience of our shared humanity and of the seemingly limitless means by which that knowledge is both summoned and forged. -- Provided by publisher.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Hirshfield, J. (2017). Ten windows: how great poems transform the world (First paperback edition.). Alfred A. Knopf.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Hirshfield, Jane, 1953-. 2017. Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World. Alfred A. Knopf.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Hirshfield, Jane, 1953-. Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Hirshfield, Jane. Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World First paperback edition., Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.

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