In the fifth essay of her new collection, Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World, poet Jane Hirshfield writes of a Japanese poem, “windows are the opening through which the luminous arrives.

Hilda Doolittle, known as HD, was a prominent modernist poet of the early 20th century. Her 1914 poem "Oread" is a key example of Imagist poetry, which uses concise, sensory language. The poem is ...

One of my favorite poets is William Carlos Williams, the imagist poet who believed a poem could be like a painting — words that provoke a picture and initiate thought. Here’s his most famous poem: ...

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