The Asking: New & Selected Poems by Jane Hirshfield
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION SPRING 2024 Adam ORiordan ' – Ruth Padel

' – Ruth Padel

they seemingly disappear

the vision of the Grail darkens

languorous pub afternoons

The Asking: New & Selected Poems by Jane Hirshfield<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION SPRING 2024</b> Adam ORiordan ' – Ruth PadelJane Hirshfield is a visionary American writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human. Both sensual meditations and passionate investigations of our shared and borrowed lives, they reveal complex truths in language luminous and precise. In an era of algorithm, assertion and induced distraction, Jane Hirshfield's poems bring a much needed awakening response, actively countering narrowness. The Asking includes work from her earlier