Nine Gates Entering the Mind of Poetry

Name: Nine Gates Entering the Mind of Poetry
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ISBN: 9780060929480

ISBN-10: 0060929480

ISBN-13: 9780060929480

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Authors: Jane Hirshfield

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A Gate Enables passage between what is inside and what is outside, and the connection poetry forges between inner and outer lives is the fundamental theme of these nine essays. 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 self-expression. in between, Nine Gates illumines the nature of originality, translation, the various strategies by which meaning unfolds itself in language, poetry's roots in oral memory and the importance of the shadow to good art. A…

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List price: $18.00
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 8/26/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.54" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Preface


Poetry and the Mind of Concentration


The Question of Originality


The World Is Large and Full of Noises: Thoughts on Translation


The Myriad Leaves of Words


Poetry and the Mind of Indirection


Two Secrets: On Poetry's Inward and Outward Looking


Facing the Lion: The Way of Shadow and Light in Some Twentieth-Century Poems


Poetry as a Vessel of Remembrance


Writing and the Threshold Life