Jane Hirshfield

Jane Hirshfield's eighth poetry book, The Beauty, appears from Knopf in March 2015, along with a new book of essays, Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World, also from Knopf. Previous books include most recently Come, Thief (Knopf, 2011) and After (HarperCollins, 2006), named a best book of the year by The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle and The Financial Times (UK). She has also written a now-classic collection of essays, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry (HarperCollins, 1997), and edited and co-translated four books collecting the work of world poets of the past. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.