After Poems

Name: After Poems
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ISBN: 9780060779160

ISBN-10: 0060779160

ISBN-13: 9780060779160

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jane Hirshfield

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"Words are not the end of thought, they are where it begins," ends the first poem in After, Jane Hirshfield's extended investigation into incarnation, transience, and our intimate connection with others and with all existence. These alert, incisive, and compassionate poems examine the human condition through subjects ranging from spareness, possibility, judgment, and hidden grief to global warming, insomnia, the meanings to be found in generally over-looked parts of speech, and the metaphysics of sneezing. In respective series of "assays" (meditative imaginative accountings) and "pebbles" (each a "brief, easily pocketable perception that remains incomplete until the reader's own response…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 2/7/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 112
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



After Long Silence


Pyracantha and Plum


Flowering Vetch


Theology


Hope: An Assay


To Judgment: An Assay


Those Who Cannot Act


Sheep's Cheese


Beneath the Snow, the Badger's Steady Breathing


Sky: An Assay


Pocket of Fog


Articulation: An Assay


Translucence: An Assay


What Is Usual Is Not What Is Always


The Mountain


Tears: An Assay


Poe: An Assay


The Refusal


Dog and Bear


Downed Branch


Vilnius


"Of": An Assay


"To": An Assay


"And": An Assay


Study of Melon & Insect


A Man Walks Through His Life


A Day Comes


The Double


Not Only Parallel Lines Extend to the Infinite


I Imagine Myself in Time


The Meeting


Wanting More and More to Live Unobserved, Unobserving


The Destination


Late Self-Portrait by Rembrandt


Ryoanji: An Assay


To Opinion


The Woodpecker Keeps Returning


"It is night. It is very dark"


Bonsai


The Promise


The Heat of Autumn


To Wake at 3:00


Dog Still Barking at Midnight


Two Washings


Termites: An Assay


Envy: An Assay


Hesitation: An Assay


Once: An Assay


Burlap Sack


The Monk Stood Beside a Wheelbarrow


I Write These Words to Delay


Seventeen Pebbles


To Spareness


"Ah!": An Assay


Against Certainty


Jasper, Feldspar, Quartzite


Instant Glimpsable Only for an Instant


One Sand Grain Among the Others in Winter Wind


To Speech


Possibility: An Assay


Bad Year


Serrano Pepper


This Much Is Promised


In a Room with Five People, Six Griefs


Ask Much, the Voice Suggested


To Gravel: An Assay


Each Morning My Neighbor Walks Out


Between the Material World and the World of Feeling


Red Scarf


The Bell Zygmunt


Letter to C.


The Dead Do Not Want Us Dead


It Was Like This: You Were Happy


Acknowledgments