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    612-822-4611

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After: Poems

After: Poems

Hirshfield, Jane

Hardcover

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0060779160
ISBN13: 9780060779160
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 97
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.34 Depth: 9.24
Language: English

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 awakens inside it), Hirshfield explores a poetry-making that looks simultaneously outward and inward, finding resonant and precise containers for the deepest currents of our inner life.

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