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Come, Thief, Paperback / softback Book

Come, Thief Paperback / softback

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Jane Hirshfield is a visionary, profoundly original 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 American readers in navigating their own lives.

Following the publication of her retrospective Each Happiness Ringed by Lions: Selected Poems in 2005, Bloodaxe has published Jane Hirshfield's later collections in the UK: After (2006), a Poetry Book Society Choice which was shortlisted for the T.S.

Eliot Prize, Come Thief (2012), The Beauty (2015) and Ledger (2020).

Come, Thief centres on the beauty and fragility of our lives, touching on love, science, ageing and mortality, war and the political, the revelatory daily object, and the full embrace of an existence that time cannot help but steal from our arms.

Whether delving into intimately familiar moments or bringing forward some experience until now outside words, Hirshfield finds for each facet of our lives its transformative portrait, its particular memorable, singing and singular name.

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