{"product_id":"the-asking-jane-hirshfield-9781524712280","title":"The Asking: New and Selected Poems","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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jane Hirshfield\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1524712280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781524712280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/16\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Jane Hirshfield","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46721490026751,"sku":"9781524712280","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3656812b-11fc-4d07-896e-5cbede578208.jpg?v=1742753020","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-asking-jane-hirshfield-9781524712280","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}