Jane Hirshfield's Writings
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Essay
Aug.23.2011
Amazon Kindle Single
The Heart of Haiku is an Amazon Kindle Single--Amazon's new series of short, editorially curated works. Kindle Singles are only buyable on Amazon--but there is a free app which allows downloading onto PCs, Macs, iPads, smart phones, etc. This one's priced at 99 cents.
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In seventeenth-century Japan, the wandering poet Basho developed haiku, a...
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Poems that brilliantly portray even mundane experiences as if they were nothing short of revelation”
—The Washington Post
About Jane
Jane Hirshfield, whose work has been called “passionate and radiant” by the New York Times Book Review, is the author of seven books of poems, most recently Come, Thief (Knopf, 2011) and After (HarperCollins, 2006; Bloodaxe Books (UK), 2006), which was named...
Causes Jane Hirshfield Supports
Seva Foundation
Amnesty International
International Campaign for Tibet
Greenpeace
Mercy Corps