{"product_id":"after-5","title":"After","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry Book Society Choice. Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJane Hirshfield is a visionary American writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human. Both sensual meditations and passionate investigations, they reveal complex truths in language luminous and precise. Rooted in the living world, her poems celebrate and elucidate a hard-won affirmation of our human fate. Born of a rigorous questioning of heart, spirit and mind, they have become indispensable to many readers in navigating their own lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing the publication of her retrospective \u003cem\u003eEach Happiness Ringed by Lions: Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e in 2005, Bloodaxe has published Jane Hirshfield''s later collections in the UK: \u003cem\u003eAfter\u003c\/em\u003e (2006), a Poetry Book Society Choice which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, \u003cem\u003eCome Thief\u003c\/em\u003e (2012), \u003cem\u003eThe Beauty\u003c\/em\u003e (2015), and \u003cem\u003eLedger\u003c\/em\u003e (2020).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAfter\u003c\/em\u003e is an extended investigation into incarnation, transience and interconnection. These alert, incisive and compassionate poems examine the human condition through subjects ranging from spareness, possibility, judgement and hidden grief to global warming, insomnia, meanings in overlooked parts of speech, and the metaphysics of sneezing. Often elegies - some overt, others implicit - these poems resound with a bass-note awareness of time, its inexorable subtractions but also its exuberant gifts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57312144195966,"sku":"NW9781852247416","price":11.17,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781852247416.jpg?v=1779358173","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/after-5","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}