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Jane Hirshfield
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Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry
— published 1997 — 2 editions |
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Given Sugar, Given Salt
— published 2001 — 3 editions |
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After
— published 2006 — 6 editions |
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The Lives of the Heart
by Jane Hirshfield (Goodreads Author), Jane Hirschfield — 4 editions |
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The Heart of Haiku
— published 2011 |
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Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women
— published 1994 — 2 editions |
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Come, Thief
— published 2011 — 4 editions |
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The October Palace
— 2 editions |
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Of Gravity and Angels
— published 1988 — 3 editions |
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Each Happiness Ringed By Lions
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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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I chose this book (without knowing the author--it was a blind reading process) for Tupelo Press's Dorset Prize. What follows is the official judge's citation: The question underlying After Urgency is how to go on—a question that presses even when we c...more |
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(The following was written for The Millions' A Year in Reading feature, 12/20/12, occurred to me I should also post it here.) Published as poetry, Anne Carson’s Nox is closer by far to W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz than to any book of pocketable lyrics. Ul...more |
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| What a varied, intricate knot of returns and newnesses this book becomes in reading through it, with certain motifs returning in ever-widening ways. Inventive, rich, with the authority that only comes to first books that have not been rushed into but...more | |
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| A gorgeous, thought provoking set of observations, in the lineage of some of John Berger's writing--and not only Bento's Sketchbook, Berger's own book about drawing which I was also totally taken by, but the general, trustworthy marriage of aesthetic...more | |
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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
“Everything has two endings-
a horse, a piece of string, a phone call.
Before a life, air.
And after.
As silence is not silence, but a limit of hearing.”
― Jane Hirshfield, Come, Thief: Poems
a horse, a piece of string, a phone call.
Before a life, air.
And after.
As silence is not silence, but a limit of hearing.”
― Jane Hirshfield, Come, Thief: Poems
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| Chicks On Lit: Title and Author Game | 4058 | 1531 | Apr 16, 2013 09:48am |
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.)