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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. — Village Voice

Nine essays on the connection poetry forges between inner and outer lives, from esteemed poet and thinker Jame Hirshfield.

Nine Gates 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

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      Publisher Harper Collins
      Imprint HarperCollins
      Published 26 August 1998
      ISBN-13 9780060929480
      978-0060929480
      ISBN-10 0060929480

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      Book Synopsis

      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. — Village Voice

      Nine essays on the connection poetry forges between inner and outer lives, from esteemed poet and thinker Jame Hirshfield.

      Nine Gates 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

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