The Asking

The long-awaited new and selected collection by the author of “some of the most important poetry in the world today” ( The New York Times Magazine ), assaying the ranges of our shared and borrowed lives: our bonds of eros and responsibilities to the planet; the singing dictions and searchlight dimensions of perception; the willing plunge into an existence both perishing and beloved, dazzling “even now, even here” In an era of algorithm, assertion, silo, and induced distraction, Jane Hirshfield’s