Additional Resources for Three Times My Life Has Opened by Jane Hirshfield

Three Times My Life Has Opened Further Reading

Brown, Kurt, ed., Facing the Lion: Writers on Life and Craft, Beacon Press, 1996.

This is a collection of recorded lectures given by
poets and fiction writers at various writing conferences
across the country, including one by Hirshfield.
The editor saw fit to title the entire collection
after Hirshfield's "Facing the Lion: The Way of
Shadow and Light in Some Twentieth-Century Poems,"
as it metaphorically addresses the "lions" that
many writers face in trying to make language as effective
and important as possible.

Hirshfield, Jane, Given Sugar, Given Salt, HarperCollins, 2001.

This is Hirshfield's latest poetry collection, and, like
those before it, the work has been praised for its accessibility
to all readers as well as its richness in imagery
and creative insights. It reads almost as a
continuation to The Lives of the Heart.

—, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry, Harper-...
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