Tree
Jane Hirshfield, “Tree” from Given Sugar, Given Salt. Copyright © 2001 by Jane Hirshfield. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
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Poet Jane Hirshfield b. 1953
Subjects Nature, Trees & Flowers
Poetic Terms Free Verse
Biography
Award-winning poet, essayist, and translator Jane Hirshfield is the author of several collections of verse, including Come, Thief (2011), After (2006), shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot prize, and Given Sugar, Given Salt (2001), a finalist for the National Book Critics Award, among others. Hirshfield has also translated the work of early women poets in collections such as The Ink Dark Moon: Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi . . .
Poems by Jane Hirshfield
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SUBJECT Nature, Trees & Flowers
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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