{"product_id":"the-asking-new-and-selected-poems-paperback","title":"The Asking: New and Selected Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cb\u003eNow in paperback, the long-awaited new and selected collection by the author of \"some of the most important poetry in the world today\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e), assaying the ranges of our shared and borrowed lives\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn an era of algorithm, assertion, silo, and induced distraction, Jane Hirshfield's poems bring a much-needed awakening response, actively countering narrowness. \u003ci\u003eThe Asking\u003c\/i\u003e takes its title from the close of one of its thirty-one new poems: \"\u003ci\u003edon't despair of this falling world, not yet \u003c\/i\u003e\/\u003ci\u003e didn't it give you the asking\u003c\/i\u003e.\" Interrogating language and life, pondering beauty amid bewilderment and transcendence amid transience, Hirshfield offers a signature investigation of the conditions, contradictions, uncertainties, and astonishments that shape our existence. A leading advocate for the biosphere and the alliance of science and imagination, she brings to both inner and outer quandaries an abiding compass: the choice to embrace what is, to face with courage, curiosity, and a sense of kinship whatever comes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn poems that consider the smallest ant and the vastness of time, hunger and bounty, physics, war, and love in myriad forms, this collection--drawing from nine previous books and five decades of writing--brings the insights and slant-lights that come to us only through poetry's arc, delve, and tact; through a vision both close and sweeping; through music-inflected thought and recombinant leap. With its quietly magnifying brushwork and numinous clarities, \u003ci\u003eThe Asking \u003c\/i\u003eexpands our awareness of both breakage's grief and the possibility for repair.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46583483596956,"sku":"9781524712280","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0712\/7616\/7324\/files\/9781524712280.jpg?v=1774473817","url":"https:\/\/bronzeandbrass.store\/products\/the-asking-new-and-selected-poems-paperback","provider":"Bronze \u0026 Brass","version":"1.0","type":"link"}