The Asking XMAS NR one for each month

one for each month

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

While Nene and her friends are busy with preparations

and committing petty crimes

including a single heart

The Asking XMAS NR one for each monthJane 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