Nine Gates
Subtitle: Entering the Mind of Poetry, Essays
By: by Jane Hirschfield.
Edition: 1st HarperPerennial ed.
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Published: August 26, 1998
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780060929480
Subjects: Poetics; Poetry -- History and criticism
Description: One of America's best-known & most respected poets offers a collection of nine essays that, taken together, constitute an intriguing primer on reading poetry. Just as a gate enables passage from outside to inside, so poetry forges a connection between our outer and inner lives. One who enters completely into the experience of a poem is initiated into a deeper intimacy with life. In this brilliant and lucid series of nine essays, award-winning poet Jane Hirshfield teaches us to open our own gates of perception to recognize and appreciate the poetry in our lives.
Notes: "A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1997 by HarperCollins Publishers"--T.p. verso.