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Jane Hirshfield
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Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry
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1997
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Given Sugar, Given Salt
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2001
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After
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2006
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The Lives of the Heart
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Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women
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1994
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The Heart of Haiku
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2011
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The October Palace
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Come, Thief
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2011
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Of Gravity and Angels
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1988
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Each Happiness Ringed By Lions
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| The poems in Once (which I'm still beginning to read, but wanted to post about while it's in my mind to do that) make me immediately and simply happy. The combination of austerity and structure with powerful feeling is rare. These poems know things--...more | |
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| A book arrives in the mail, by a poet you've never heard of. The jacket artwork and its typeface are startling, magnetic, and you open the pages curious-- just a glance, to see... This happens not infrequently, and you might think, "good poems, good...more | |
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| Jim Harrison's poems are as free swinging as a wild river, and as rich in visible and under-surface life. They sweep things up and let go of them at the same time. You throw in your attention, and you never know what will rise to meet it. Almost ever...more | |
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| These Montale translations by William Arrowsmith are a treasure trove & coin-chest lifted back into view. These translations, along with more recent ones by Jonathan Galassi, restore one of the 20th c.'s major poets to American ears. Montale is a...more | |
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| compelling and brilliant, Morrison uses language in ways uniquely her own. Disclosure: on a blind reading of manuscripts, I chose her next book--not yet published at the time I write this-- for Tupelo's Dorset prize. When I found out who the winning...more | |
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“Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.”
― Jane Hirshfield
― Jane Hirshfield
“One breath taken completely; one poem, fully written, fully read - in such a moment, anything can happen.”
― Jane Hirshfield, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry
― Jane Hirshfield, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry
“You must try,
the voice said, to become colder.
I understood at once.
It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze,
braced in stone. Only something heartless
could bear the full weight.”
― Jane Hirshfield
the voice said, to become colder.
I understood at once.
It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze,
braced in stone. Only something heartless
could bear the full weight.”
― Jane Hirshfield
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Dorianne wrote: "Woo hoo!! You on it girl."D, thanks for the welcome! A little slow in getting back to you here, almost three years, but better late than not at all, don't we think?
You yourself are a wonder for online things. I am tiptoeing in again here. (Anyone who has asked to befriend, non-answers don't mean I don't love you, just that I know I'm not great at keeping up multiple places of conversation.)
