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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 811 EAN: 9780060779191 ISBN: 0060779195 Label: Harper Perennial Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 112 Publication Date: March 01, 2007 Publisher: Harper Perennial Release Date: February 20, 2007 Studio: Harper Perennial Related Items:
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 Rating: - AfterShe shares in verse the short glimpses of life. Every time I pick up her book and read another my thoughts echo her words. Rating: - Complex and WonderfulI have just discovered the poems of Jane Hirshfield. The are wonderfully complex and rewarding. Each is to savored, thought about as the deeper and varied meaning emerges. Her background in Eastern culture shows through. I plan to read all her work. Rating: - Words on Words.These poems are astounding. Jane Hirshfield is succinct, I could hear the words slicing off her pen and onto the paper. She doesn't waste breath. If her poetry were to be labelled in Taoist terms it would be the Philosophical School of Tao, using her energy in the most efficient ways she can think or dream up. I read these with my head tilted and my mouth agape, she dissects language so thoroughly and with such compassion that the words and letters practically take on human qualities. I didn't put ... Read More Rating: - The Awakening of WordsIn Jane Hirshfield's sixth book of poetry entitled, "After," she is interested or invested in the use of words and their function in life and what they have to teach. The theme of this contemporary woman poet seems to dwell in her poem called "To Speech," "What lives in words is what words were needed to learn." After the poet has mastered the use of language, only then can it be manipulated into the truth. She is conscious of words associated with self awareness, namely: judgment, grief, theology, ... Read More Rating: - Where the poem ends ...I have anticipated the release of Jane's latest work as she had read some of the poems at her workshops at the Tassajara Zen Center. I am not disappointed. The last line in the opening poem summarizes and also hints at the poetry to follow. "Yet words are not the end of thought, they are where it begins." And Jane, in a recent reading, admitted that these poems do leave lines unended, thoughts unfinished. And for this reader, that is a good reason to return to certain ... Read More 
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