Jane Hirshfield
Jane Hirshfield is the author of eight poetry collections, most recently, The Beauty (Knopf Doubleday), and two books of essays, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry (HarperCollins) and Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World (Knopf Doubleday). Hirshfield is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a Contributing Editor of Alaska Quarterly Review.
Articles by this Author
Brocade
Musa Paradisiaca
Introduction to “30th Anniversary Poems”
If a person should happen to be asking the question, “What is the state of American literature, the state of American arts?” she or he could turn happily for an answer to the past thirty years’ pages of The Alaska Quarterly Review (AQR). If that surprises – if Anchorage seems far-flung,possibly even implausible, as a
