Come, Thief Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee (2011) Imagine a world where everyone

Imagine a world where everyone knows everything about everybody

and "Charlotte Bronte and Bewick's "British Birds'" and "Charlotte Bronte as Governess

where those who wield magic wield power

solid-as-a-rock support and leadership that motivates

From pristine beaches and jungle waterfalls to high-altitude coffee plantations

Come, Thief Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee (2011) Imagine a world where everyoneA revelatory, indispensable collection of poems from Jane Hirshfield that centers on beauty, time, and the full embrace of an existence that time cannot help but steal from our arms. Hirshfield is unsurpassed in her ability to sink into a moments essence and exchange something of herself with its finite musicand then, in seemingly simple, inevitable words, to deliver that exchange to us in poems that vibrate with form and expression perfectly united.