Given Sugar, Given Salt
Poems
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · April 2, 2002
“Hirshfield’s are the kind of poems that could—before you even realize it—have quietly changed your life.” —O Magazine In this luminous and authoritative collection, Jane Hirshfield presents an ever–deepening 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 life's central splendor." Hirshfield explores questions of identity, aging, death, and of time and the variegated gifts brought by its relentless passage.
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- Who it’s for
- These poems make identity, aging, and time feel newly vivid through attention to the ordinary.
- Themes
- Identity and aging, Death and time, Everyday subjects and habits
- Pacing
- Reflective
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“Hirshfield’s are the kind of poems that could—before you even realize it—have quietly changed your life.” —O Magazine In this luminous and authoritative collection, Jane Hirshfield presents an ever–deepening 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 life's central splendor."
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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.
Small Things, Deep Time
These poems make identity, aging, and time feel newly vivid through attention to the ordinary.
Come here for
- A button, a habit, or sleep seen at surprising scale
- Questions about change, mortality, and what time brings
Expect
- Reflective poems with an eye for life’s shifting meanings
- An intimate reading experience, attentive to ordinary things
Where it sits
| American Poetry | 72% |
|---|---|
| Poetry About Death | 55% |
| Women Poets | 53% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- American Literary Collections
- Inspirational & Religious Poetry
- American Poetry
- Poetry About Death
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- Love Poetry
- Nature Poetry
- Place Poetry
- Family Poems
- Authors
- Jane Hirshfield
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- April 2, 2002
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Identity and aging · Death and time · Everyday subjects and habits
- Reading lane
- American Literary Collections