num_pages: 107
description: The Beauty an incandescent new collection from one of American poetrys most distinctive and essential voices opens with a series of dappled ranging My poemsMy Skeleton My Corkboard My Species My Weatherusing materials sometimes familiar sometimes unexpected to explore the magnitude singularity and permeability of our shared existence. With a pen faithful to the actual yet dipped at times in the ink of the surreal Hirshfield considers the inner and outer worlds we live in yet are not confined by; reflecting on advice given her long agoto avoid the word orshe concludes Now I too am sixty. / There was no other life. Hirshfields lines cut as always directly to the heart of human experience. Her robust affirmation of choice even amid inevitability her tender consciousness of the unjudging beauty of what exists her abiding contemplation of our moral societal and biological intertwinings sustain poems that tune and retune the keys of a life. For this poet Zero Plus Anything Is a World. Hirshfields riddling recipes for that world (add salt to hunger; add time to trees) offer a profoundly altered understanding of our lives losses and additions and of the small and larger beauties we so often miss. 
language: English
title: The Beauty
publisher: Knopf