The Asking: New and Selected Poems BN_Top_100 All the effort that goes

All the effort that goes into caring for the human and more-than-human worlds

Here Lizzie Wade asks us to reckon with our long-held narratives of these events

as well as Haiti's varied religious traditions and local crafts

and unravel the mystery of her relationship with Nonie

or condemn the human race to a dark force threatening the entire galaxy

The Asking: New and Selected Poems BN_Top_100 All the effort that goesNow in paperback, the long awaited new and selected collection by the author of some of the most important poetry in the world today (The New York Times Magazine), assaying the ranges of our shared and borrowed lives In an era of algorithm, assertion, silo, and induced distraction, Jane Hirshfields poems bring a much needed awakening response, actively countering narrowness. The Asking takes its title from the close of one of its thirty one new poems: