About Jane Hirshfield: Jane Hirshfield is an American poet, essayist, and translator.
Poetry's work is the clarification and magnification of being.
Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.
One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn't know was in you, or in the world.
