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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Given Sugar, Given Salt by Jane Hirshfield
In this luminous and authoritative new collection Jane Hirshfield presents an everdeepening and altering comprehension of human existence in poems utterly unique as William Matthews once wrote of her work in their praise of ceaseless mutability as lifes central splendor.
In poems complex in meaning yet clear in statement and depiction Hirshfield explores questions of identity aging death and of time and the variegated gifts brought by its relentless passage. Whether meditating upon a button the role of habit in our lives or the elusive nature of our relationship to sleep Hirshfield brings each subject into a surprising and magnified existence.