Tag: Jane Hirshfield
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* autumning with jane hirshfield
Oyes en medio del otoño detonaciones amarillas? (In the middle of autumn do you hear yellow explosions?) — Pablo Neruda, The Book of Questions * Neruda’s lines above evoke a pleasing moment of synesthesia, blurring the sight of yellow leaves with the sound of explosions. As the season changes, I can’t help but see such blurred…
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* short lyrics: (pre)spring mix
As I am on the road – in Corpus Christi, Texas promoting Everything We Think We Hear to be exact – I thought I would do a short, fun post of some seasonal short lyrics. Could be that the winters in Cincinnati are tough that I’ve got spring on my mind already. I’d like to say…
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* in the clear with Jane Hirshfield
Reading through an interview with poet Jane Hirshfield, I was moved by a concept she terms “clarity without simplicity”: …Yes, being clear without being simple is one of the poetic qualities I most admire in the work of others, and one I hope finds a place in my own. I feel like this is one…
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* Akhmatova & some news on the friday influence
Willow – Anna Akhmatova “And a worn-out cluster of trees.” — Pushkin In the cool nursery of the young century, I was born to a patterned tranquility, The voice of man was not sweet to me, But the wind’s voice I could understand. I loved burdocks and nettles, But the silver willow best…
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