"The author of Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry (1997) and has also edited and cotranslated The Ink Dark Moon: Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan (1990) with Mariko Aratani; Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems (2006) with Robert Bly; Women in Praise of the Sacred: Forty-Three Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women (1994); and an ebook on Basho, The Heart of Haiku (2011)...
Her honors include The Poetry Center Book Award, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, Columbia University's Translation Center Award, the Commonwealth Club of California Poetry Medal, and the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award. Her work has been selected for seven editions of Best American Poetry. In 2004, Hirshfield was awarded the seventieth Academy Fellowship for distinguished poetic achievement by the Academy of American Poets"
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Some Poems:
Each Moment a White Bull
This Was Once a Love Poem
My Skeleton