Description: "Jane Hirshfield is a poet very close to my heart." - Wislawa Szymborska, Nobel Nobel Laureate in Literature for poetry "Jane Hirshfield is one of our finest, most memorable contemporary poets." - David Baker, (from an essay about to appear in The American Poet) "Now this is inspired poetry." - Nathan Bierma, Chicago Tribune "Finely measured and carefully weighted poems....Hirshfield even calls her short poems 'pebbles,' and, indeed, they send ripples across the reflecting pool of our collective consciousness." - Booklist (starred review) "...finely measured and carefully weighted poems...stirring new collection." - Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review) "After is filled with treasures." - San Francisco Chronicle "Jane Hirshfield's poems have such a wonderfully obsessive personal grammar and such delicate reversals that all objects and elements--like a house and its neighboring redwood tree--merge." - --Michael Ondaatje

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