This new collection opens with a series of \\\"My\\\" poems--\\\"My Skeleton,\\\" \\\"My Corkboard,\\\" \\\"My Species,\\\" \\\"My Weather\\\"--in which Hirshfield uses the familiar materials of the self to explore the profundities and quirks of existence....

Jane Hirshfield offers ten eloquent and highly original explorations into how great poems transform our experience of the world....