Jane Hirshfield

Jane Hirshfield

Jane Hirshfield (born 1953) is an award-winning American poet.

She was born in New York City and received her bachelor's degree from Princeton University in the school's first graduating class to include women. She later studied at the San Francisco Zen Center. [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/563] Jane Hirshfield biography page at the Academy of American Poets Web site, accessed January 15, 2007]

Hirshfield has worked as a freelance writer and translator. She has also taught at the University of California, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, and as the Elliston Visiting Poet at the University of Cincinnati. She is currently on the faculty of the Bennington Master of Fine Arts Writing Seminars.

Her work has been published in "The New Yorker", "Atlantic Monthly", "The Nation", the "Los Angeles Times", and multiple volumes of The Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize anthologies. [ [http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/4512/Jane_Hirshfield/index.aspx?authorID=4512] Jane Hirshfield biography page at HarperCollins Web site, accessed January 15, 2006]

Books

Poetry

* "After" (HarperCollins), 2006, named one of the best books of the year by "The Washington Post"
* "Given Sugar, Given Salt" (2001), finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
* "The Lives of the Heart" (1997)
* "The October Palace" (1994)
* "Of Gravity & Angels" (1988)
* "Alaya" (1982)

Other

* "Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry" (1997)

Edited and translated

* "The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan (with Mariko Aratani) (1990)
* "Women in Praise of the Sacred: Forty-Three Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women" (1994).

Honors and awards

* The Poetry Center Book Award
* Fellowship, Guggenheim Foundation
* Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation,
* Fellowship, Academy of American Poets
* Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
* Columbia University's Translation Center Award
* Commonwealth Club of California Poetry Medal
* Bay Area Book Reviewers Award
* Academy Fellowship for distinguished poetic achievement from The Academy of American Poets (2004)
* Finalist, T. S. Eliot Prize

Poems appearing in "The Best American Poetry" series

Notes

External links

* [http://www.barclayagency.com/hirshfield.html] Jane Hirshfield Web pages at the Steven Barclay Agency Web site
* [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/feature.onpoets.html?id=178400] Feature article on Hirshfield at Poetry Foundation Web site
* [http://www.poems.com/hirinter.htm Interview with Hirshfield] at "Poetry Daily" Web site
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/03/AR2006080301086.html] Review by Steven Ratiner of "After" in "The Washington Post" Sunday, August 6, 2006

Poetry online

* [http://www.poetrymagazine.com/archives/2001/Holiday2001/hirshfield.htm] Poems online at "Poetry Magazine" Web site:
** "Poem with Two Endings"
** "Poem Holding Its Heart in One Fist"
** "Inflection Finally Ungraspable by Grammar"
** "All Evening, Each Time I Started to Say It"
** "Speed and Perfection"
** "Optimism"
* [http://www.barclayagency.com/hirspoet.html] "The Poet" (Steven Barclay Agency Web site)
* [http://www.salon.com/weekly/hirshfield.html] "Letting What Enters Enter" ("Salon" online magazine)


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