Ten Windows

Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World

A true poet, speaking to true readers about the meaning of poetry and how it moves us. Jane Hirschfield, winner of the National Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim Fellow, presents her latest collection of poetic essays, exploring how great poetry changes the world. This book, published by Daxuewen, features the editorial translation and preface by renowned poet and translator Wang Jiaxin; it is also recommended by renowned poets Xidu, Lei Pingyang, Lan Lan, Zhang Dinghao, and Hu Sang.
1. The author of this book, Jane Hirschfield, has won the Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Poetry Award, the National Endowment for the Arts Award, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rockefeller Foundation Award, and the Academy of American Poets Fellowship. She has achieved great achievements in poetry creation and poetry research, and has a high reputation in the American literary world.
2. The author of this book is highly praised by poets Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska. Milosz commented that she is "the most outstanding one in the California Poets League", Wislawa commented that she is "the poet closest to my soul", and Robert Pinsky called her "a master who is still surprising".
3. This book was introduced and published in China for the first time. Jane Hirschfield personally wrote a new preface for Chinese readers, which played a good guiding and popularizing role for domestic readers.
4. Recommended by the famous poet and translator Wang Jiaxin, who edited and translated the book and wrote a preface for it; also recommended by Xidu, Lei Pingyang, Lan Lan, Zhang Dinghao, Hu Sang and others in the Chinese poetry world!
5. Ten Poets, Ten Windows into Great Poetry. By interpreting the works of accomplished poets like Czesław Milosz, Emily Dickinson, Matsuo Basho, Wislawa Szymborska, and Julie Bishop, this book showcases how the world's great poets used poetry to describe and transform the aesthetic world, offering readers a feast of "interpreting poetry."
【Content Introduction】
This collection of poetic essays by renowned American poet Jane Hirschfield reveals how great poetry works and changes the world. Through ten chapters, the book explores the works of poets such as Czesław Milosz, Emily Dickinson, Matsuo Basho, and Wislawa Szymborska, teaching us how to read and write poetry, analyzing what makes a poem remarkable, and how these great poets used poetry to describe and transform the aesthetic world. The author offers unique and insightful analysis and insights into each poet's experiences and the characteristics of their poems. This book serves as a navigational map; following its guidance, we can not only savor the transformative power of great poetry, but also witness how, through reading and writing poetry, we can understand ourselves and realize the possibilities of our lives.
【Expert Recommendation】
In Ten Windows, Jane Hirschfield guides us through a world of vibrant poetry, not as an academic lecturing students, but as a real poet, speaking to real readers about the meaning of poetry and how it moves us. Her conclusion—that poetry holds the richest diversity of humanity—is remarkably simple, but her argument—how poets' words about things refer to those things and others—is so complex, surprising, and wide-ranging, devoid of theoretical platitudes, that it leaves one feeling and convinced of the multifaceted meanings of poetry and its ever-increasing importance. You'll find that the only reason you put this book down is to return to more of your favorite poems.
— Adam Gopnik, columnist for The New Yorker: "Ten Windows" is a treasure trove to savor and appreciate in your spare time. Jane Hirschfield, the brilliant author, acts as a tour guide, guiding us through poems both famous and lesser-known. Ten weeks is the ideal time for this exploration. Highly recommended!
Joyce Carol Oates, renowned American author and National Book Award winner, Jane Hirschfeld, was a window-opener (and then, concealing herself, not letting herself block out the precious light), a recipient, translator, transformer, and eulogizer of "great poetry." These were her most important qualities. She was always humble and filled with awe. She always carried within her the spirit of an apprentice in art.
—Wang Jiaxin, renowned poet, translator, and critic [Editor's Recommendation]
Through ten chapters, this book explores the works of accomplished poets such as Czesław Milosz, Emily Dickinson, Seamus Heaney, Matsuo Basho, Wislawa Szymborska, Cavafy, and Bishop, demonstrating how the world's great poets used poetry to describe and transform the aesthetic world. The author offers unique and insightful analysis and insights into each poet's experiences and the characteristics of their poetry.
The author is knowledgeable and often draws inferences from one instance to another. In addition, she holds the dual identities of a poet and a poetry researcher. She has both the academic rationality of professional research and the emotional thinking and experience of artistic thinking. Her writing is infectious and guiding. As the poet Wang Jiaxin said, Jane Hirschfield "is a window opener, a recipient, translator, and transformer of great poetry."

2022-04-01

广西师范大学出版社

Great Knowledge

384

9787559841230