{"product_id":"the-asking-new-and-selected-poems","title":"The Asking: New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe long-awaited new and selected collection by the author of \"some of the most important poetry in the world today\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e), assaying the ranges of our shared and borrowed lives: our bonds of eros and responsibilities to the planet; the singing dictions and searchlight dimensions of perception; the willing plunge into an existence both perishing and beloved, dazzling \"even now, even here\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn an era of algorithm, assertion, silo, and induced distraction, Jane Hirshfield's poems bring a much-needed awakening response, actively countering narrowness. \u003ci\u003eThe Asking\u003c\/i\u003e takes its title from the close of one of its thirty-one new poems: \u003ci\u003e\"don't despair of this falling world, not yet \u003c\/i\u003e\/ \u003ci\u003edidn't it give you the asking.\"\u003c\/i\u003e Interrogating language and life, pondering beauty amid bewilderment and transcendence amid transience, Hirshfield offers a signature investigation of the conditions, contradictions, uncertainties, and astonishments that shape our existence. A leading advocate for the biosphere and the alliance of science and imagination, she brings to both inner and outer quandaries an abiding compass: the choice to embrace what is, to face with courage, curiosity, and a sense of kinship whatever comes.\u003cbr\u003e In poems that consider the smallest ant and the vastness of time, hunger and bounty, physics, war, and love in myriad forms, this collection--drawing from nine previous books and five decades of writing--brings the insights and slant-lights that come to us only through poetry's arc, delve, and tact; through a vision both close and sweeping; through music-inflected thought and recombinant leap.\u003cbr\u003e With its quietly magnifying brushwork and numinous clarities, \u003ci\u003eThe Asking\u003c\/i\u003e expands our awareness of both breakage's grief and the possibility for repair.\r","brand":"Jane Hirshfield","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44439833837804,"sku":"9780593535950","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780593535950.jpg?v=1718652085","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/the-asking-new-and-selected-poems","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}