After

Jane Hirshfield

• Editore: HarperCollins e-books
• Anno: 2010
• ISBN:
  9780062008596
• Argomento: Letteratura
• Categoria: Poetesse

"Jane Hirshfield is one of our finest, most memorable contemporary poets." —David Baker, The American Poet

"Hirshfield's poems... send ripples across the reflecting pool of our collective consciousness." — Booklist (starred review)

A profound, generous, and masterful sixth collection by one of the preeminent American poets of her generation, After explores incarnation, transience, and our intimate connection with others and with all existence. Jane Hirshfield's alert, incisive, and compassionate poems examine the human condition through subjects ranging from sparseness, possibility, judgment, and hidden grief to global warming, insomnia, the meanings to be found in generally overlooked 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.

Contents

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:...

Indice dei contenuti

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• After Long Silence
• Pyracantha and Plum
• Flowering Vetch
• Theology
• Hope
• To Judgment
• Those Who Cannot Act
• Sheep’s Cheese
• Beneath the Snow, the Badger’s Steady Breathing
• Sky
• Pocket of Fog
• Articulation
• Translucence
• What Is Usual Is Not What Is Always
• The Mountain
• Tears
• Poe
• The Refusal
• Dog and Bear
• Downed Branch
• Vilnius
• “Of”
• “To”
• “And”
• 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
• 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
• Envy
• Hesitation
• Once
• Burlap Sack
• The Monk Stood Beside a Wheelbarrow
• I Write These Words to Delay
• Seventeen Pebbles
• To Spareness
• “Ah!”
• Against Certainty
• Jasper, Feldspar, Quartzite
• Instant Glimpsable Only for an Instant
• One Sand Grain Among the Others in Winter Wind
• To Speech
• Possibility
• Bad Year
• Serrano Pepper
• This Much Is Promised
• In a Room with Five People, Six Griefs
• Ask Much, the Voice Suggested
• To Gravel
• 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
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Other Books by Jane Hirshfield
• Copyright
• About the Publisher