{"product_id":"nine-gates-paperback","title":"Nine Gates - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJane Hirshfield\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"With the exactitude of a surgeon and the sensuous attention of a chef, Hirshfield addresses, essay by essay, the art, craft, and act of making poetry . . . These essays are both brilliantly ambitious\u003c\/strong\u003e--\u003cstrong\u003eone random passage in her last piece, on 'writing and the threshold life, ' flows 14th-century Japanese poet Ono no Komachi (whose poems she has translated in the past) into Czeslaw Milosz into Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman\u003c\/strong\u003e--\u003cstrong\u003eand confidently clear.\" -- \u003cem\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNine essays on the connection poetry forges between inner and outer lives, from esteemed poet and thinker Jame Hirshfield. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNine Gates\u003c\/em\u003e begins with a close examination of the roots of poetic craft in \"the mind of concentration\" and concludes by exploring the writer's role in creating a sense of community that is open, inclusive and able to bind the individual and the whole in a way that allows each full self-expression. in between, \u003cem\u003eNine Gates\u003c\/em\u003e illumines the nature of originality, translation, the various strategies by which meaning unfolds itself in language, poetry's roots in oral memory and the importance of the shadow to good art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDelving into the nature of poetry, Jane Hirshfield also writes on the nature of the human mind, perception and experience. \u003cem\u003eNine Gates\u003c\/em\u003e is about the underpinnings of poetic craft, but it is also about a way of being alive in the world: alertly, musically, intelligently, passionately, permeably.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn part a primer for the general reader, \u003cem\u003e Nine Gates \u003c\/em\u003eis also a manual for the working writer, with each \"gate\" exploring particular strategies of language and thought that allow a poem to convey meaning and emotion with clarity and force. Above all, \u003cem\u003eNine Gates\u003c\/em\u003e is an insightful guide to the way the mind of poetry awakens our fundamental consciousness of what can be known when a person is most fully alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Gate Enables passage between what is inside and what is outside, and the connection poetry forges between inner and outer lives is the fundamental theme of these nine essays.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNine Gates\u003c\/em\u003e begins with a close examination of the roots of poetic craft in \"the mind of concentration\" and concludes by exploring the writer's role in creating a sense of community that is open, inclusive and able to bind the individual and the whole in a way that allows each full self-expression. in between, \u003cem\u003eNine Gates\u003c\/em\u003e illumines the nature of originality, translation, the various strategies by which meaning unfolds itself in language, poetry's roots in oral memory and the importance of the shadow to good art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA person who enters completely into the experience of a poem is initiated into a deeper intimacy with life. Delving into the nature of poetry, Jane Hirshfield also writes on the nature of the human mind, perception and experience. \u003cem\u003eNine Gates\u003c\/em\u003e is about the underpinnings of poetic craft, but it is also about a way of being alive in the world -- alertly, musically, intelligently, passionately, permeably.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn part a primer for the general reader, \u003cem\u003eNine Gates\u003c\/em\u003e is also a manual for the working writer, with each \"gate\" exploring particular strategies of language and thought that allow a poem to convey meaning and emotion with clarity and force. Above all, \u003cem\u003eNine Gates\u003c\/em\u003e is an insightful guide to the way the mind of poetry awakens our fundamental consciousness of what can be known when a person is most fully alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.9 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44064006045830,"sku":"9780060929480","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0664\/3446\/5926\/files\/daI5v7nE8D9780060929480.webp?v=1781303638","url":"https:\/\/profixdiy.com\/products\/nine-gates-paperback","provider":"ProFix Home Repair","version":"1.0","type":"link"}