The Asking XMAS NR certain that one day they’d

certain that one day they’d be invited to join the Justice League

one for each month

and committing petty crimes

an urban-like array of gridded broken walls and shattered foundations

The Asking XMAS NR certain that one day they’dJane Hirshfield is a visionary American writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human. Both sensual meditations and passionate investigations of our shared and borrowed lives, they reveal complex truths in language luminous and precise. In an era of algorithm, assertion and induced distraction, Jane Hirshfields poems bring a much needed awakening response, actively countering narrowness. The Asking includes work from her earlier