{"product_id":"the-asking-new-and-selected-poems-9780593535950","title":"The Asking: New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe long-awaited new and selected collection by the author of some of the most important poetry in the world today (The New York Times Magazine)  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  In an era of algorithm  assertion  silo  and induced distraction  Jane Hirshfields poems bring a much-needed awakening response  actively countering narrowness. The Asking takes its title from the close of one of its thirty-one new poems: dont despair of this falling world  not yet \/ didnt it give you the asking. 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. In poems that consider the smallest ant and the vastness of time  hunger and bounty  physics  war  and love in myriad forms  this collectiondrawing from nine previous books and five decades of writingbrings the insights and slant-lights that come to us only through poetrys arc  delve  and tact; through a vision both close and sweeping; through music-inflected thought and recombinant leap. With its quietly magnifying brushwork and numinous clarities  The Asking expands our awareness of both breakages grief and the possibility for repair.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666359869493,"sku":"ByrdShop_0593535952","price":63.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780593535950.jpg?v=1782429719","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-asking-new-and-selected-poems-9780593535950","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}