num_pages: 128
description: A book of personal ecological and political reckoning from the internationally renowned poet named among the modern masters (The Washington Post).Ledger's pages hold the most important and masterly work yet by Jane Hirshfield one of our most celebrated contemporary poets. From the already much-quoted opening lines of despair and defiance (Let them not say: we did not see it. / We saw) Hirshfield's poems inscribe a registry both personal and communal of our present-day predicaments. They call us to deepened dimensions of thought feeling and action. They summon our responsibility to sustain one another and the earth while pondering acutely and tenderly the crises of refugees justice and climate. They consider the minimum mass for a whale for a language an ice cap recognize the intimacies of connection and meditate upon doubt and contentment a library book with previously dog-eared corners the hunger for surprise and the debt we owe this world's continuing beauty. Hirshfield's signature alloy of fact and imagination clarity and mystery inquiry observation and embodied emotion has created a book of indispensable poems tuned toward issues of consequence to all who share this world's current and future fate.
language: English
title: Ledger: Poems
publisher: Knopf Publishing Group