Nine Gates

By Jane Hirschfield,

Book cover of Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry

Book description

A Gate Enables passage between what is inside and what is outside, and the connection poetry forges between inner and outer lives is the fundamental theme of these nine essays.

Nine Gates begins with a close examination of the roots of poetic craft in "the mind of concentration" and concludes…

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1 author picked Nine Gates as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

In order to retrieve my sense of seeing in the present, I went to my second home in Mexico, read a little each morning, and then went walking without any destination. This is the book I was reading those mornings in Mexico, before my walks. It may seem odd to start with a book about poetry, but this one opened the gate to seeing and to taking my first photograph.

From Janet's list on discovering how to see.

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