Ten Windows ─ How Great Poems Transform the World

"A collection of ten essays by the poet Jane Hirshfield, about reading and understanding poetry, and about the power of poetry"--

JANE HIRSHFIELD is the author of eight books of poetry and one previous, now-classic collection of essays, and four books collecting and co-translating the work of poets from the past. A current chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, hHirshfield has received many prizes and awards including fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Book Award, the Poetry Center Book Award, and finalist selection for the National Book Critics Circle Award and England's T.S. Eliot Prize. Her work appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, The New Republic, Harper's, Orion, The American Poetry Review, Poetry, Slate, McSweeney's, and seven editions of The Best American Poetry. She has been featured in two Bill Moyers PBS television specials, and her work appears frequently on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac and other public radio programs.