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  A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Jane Hirshfield is the author of seven books of poetry, a collection of essays, and three anthologies collecting the work of women poets of the past. Her 2006 book, After, was named a best book of the year by The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, and England’s Financial Times, and was a finalist for England’s T. S. Eliot Prize. Given Sugar, Given Salt (2001) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Other honors include the California Book Award, the Poetry Center Book Award, and fellow-ships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Academy of American Poets. Hirshfield’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Times Literary Supplement, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Nation, Orion, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, McSweeney’s, and six editions of The Best American Poetry. A resident of Northern California since 1974, she has taught at the University of California, Berkeley; Bennington College; and elsewhere, and presents her poems widely in universities, literary centers, and festivals throughout the United States and abroad.

  ALSO BY JANE HIRSHFIELD

  POETRY

  After

  Given Sugar, Given Salt

  The Lives of the Heart

  The October Palace

  Of Gravity & Angels

  Alaya

  PROSE

  Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry

  ANTHOLOGY

  Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women

  TRANSLATIONS

  Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems (with Robert Bly)

  The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu,

  Women of the Ancient Court of Japan (with Mariko Aratani)