{"product_id":"nine-gates-entering-the-mind-of-poetry-isbn-9780060174569","title":"Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry","description":"\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 | A 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. \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\u003e A 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\u003e In 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\u003cp\u003e | \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"These expansive, fearless essays are on the basics of-not poesy in any small sense-but mind, wit, stalking, silky focus the eros of knowledge, the steely etiquette of art. For those who want it, here's guidance toward the power of being in the margin, the calm ease of the center.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGary Snyder\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[Hirshfield's] nine essays, or \"gates,\" range a wide territory, in often strikingly beautiful language, to consider such objects as concentration, prosody, translation, poetry's roots as an oral art form, and the importance of shadow to art and spiritual life.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A cross between a reader's guide to poetry and a how-to guide for would-be poets, Hirshfield's collected essays on poetic understanding read like a series of vigorous, well-documented university guest lectures...With her feet firmly planted in both the Western and Eastern canons, Hirshfield delivers a thorough and timely collection on our relationships to poetry, our relationship to the world and everything in between.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In the outstanding and lucid critical essays in Nine Gates, Hirshfield proves that she, like all good poets, is a gifted reader . . . Happily, this enlightening volume does exactly what Hirshfield hoped it would: it intensifies our response to poetry, hence to life.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist (starred)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Jane Hirshfield dares to write about the mysteries of art, and she approaches them in a way that feels exactly right to me: plainly, reverently, intelligently. She respects subject matter and gives due weight to both past masters and her own intuition. The result is rare and fine: a collection of essays combining the richness of a daybook with the pointed quality of a good lecture.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert Pinsky, Poet Laureate of the United States\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"These expansive, fearless essays are on the basics of--not poesy in any small sense--but mind, wit, stalking, silky focus, the eros of knowledge, the steely etiquette of art. For those who want it, here's guidance toward the power of being in the margin, the calm ease of the center.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGary Snyder, author of Mountains and Rivers Without End\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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--one 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--and confidently clear.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889059655909,"sku":"NP9780060174569","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/nine-gates-entering-the-mind-of-poetry-isbn-9780060174569","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}