Jane Hirshfield

Jane Hirshfield (fødd 24. februar 1953)^[1] er ein amerikansk diktar, essayist og omsetjar. Ho har undervist ved fleire ameikanske universitet, som University of California, San Francisco og Stanford. I 2012 blei ho vald til leiar (chancellor) av Academy of American Poets.^[2]

Jane Hirshfield
Statsborgarskap	USA
Fødd	24. februar 1953 (72 år) Manhattan
Yrke	lingvist, omsetjar, essayist, lyrikar, skribent, klimaaktivist
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Jane Hirshfield var fødd i New York by.^[2] Foreldra hennar var Harriet Miller Hirshfield og Robert Hirshfield, som dreiv med tekstilindustri.^[3]

Ho tok bachelorgraden ved Princeton University i det første årskullet som også omfatta kvinner. Kort tid seinare, i 1973, gav ho ut sitt første dikt. Deretter tok ho ein skrivepause på nær åtte år medan ho studerte zen-buddhisme ved San Francisco Zen Center.^[4]

Hirshfield byrja samla og gje ut antologiar av dikt skrivne av kvinner, og etterkvart særleg religiøse dikt av kvinner.^[4]

Verk

Diktsamlingar

• Hirshfield, Jane (1982). Alaya. Quarterly Review of Literature. ISBN 0614063973.
• Of Gravity & Angels (HarperCollins, 1988), vann California Book Award in Poetry
• The October Palace (HarperCollins, 1994), vann Poetry Center Book Award
• The Lives of the Heart (HarperCollins,1997), vann Bay Area Book Reviewers Award
• Given Sugar, Given Salt (HarperCollins, 2001), finalist til National Book Critics Circle Award
• Pebbles & Assays (Brooding Heron Press), 2004
• Each Happiness Ringed by Lions (Bloodaxe Books UK, 2005)
• After (HarperCollins, 2006), (Bloodaxe Books UK, 2006)
• Come, Thief: Poems. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 5 February 2013. ISBN 978-0-375-71207-4.
• minus/my-ness (Missing Links Press), 2014. ISBN 978-0-9899228-3-8.
• The Beauty: Poems. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 17 March 2015. ISBN 978-0-385-35108-9.
• Ledger: Poems. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 10 March 2020. ISBN 9780525657804.

Sakprosa

• Komachi, Ono no; Shikibu, Izumi (1990). Hirshfield, Jane; Aratani, Mariko, red. The ink dark moon : love poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, women of the ancient Court of Japan. Vintage Classics.
• Hirshfield, Jane, red. (1994). Women in praise of the sacred : forty-three centuries of spiritual poetry by women. Vintage Classics.
• Jane Hirshfield (26. august 1998). Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-092948-0.
• Robert Bly; Jane Hirshfield, red. (2004). Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems. Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-6386-6.
• The Heart of Haiku (Kindle Single, 2011) ^[5]
• Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 17. mars 2015. ISBN 978-0-385-35106-5.^[6]

Prisar og utmerkingar

• The Poetry Center Book Award
• The California Book Award
• Fellowship, Guggenheim Foundation
• Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation,
• Fellowship, Academy of American Poets
• Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
• Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Poetry
• Columbia University's Translation Center Award
• Commonwealth Club of California Poetry Medal
• Bay Area Book Reviewers Award
• Academy Fellowship for distinguished poetic achievement from The Academy of American Poets (2004)
• Finalist, T. S. Eliot Prize
• Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award
• Long-list National Book Award
• Elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, (2012)^[7]