The October Palace: Poems
by Jane Hirshfield
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Grounded in a series of mediations upon the life of the feeling heart in the world, Jane Hirshfield's long-awaited third collection of poetry explores the ways that radiance dwells most truly in the ordinary, the difficult, and the plain.Tags
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A devastating batch of lyrical, sensual, spiritual poems—her relative accessibility does not in any way dilute her restless intelligence or the startling clarity of her vision.
So few grains of happiness
measured against all the dark
and still the scales balance.
The world asks of us
only the strength we have and we give it.
Then it asks more, and we give it.
measured against all the dark
and still the scales balance.
The world asks of us
only the strength we have and we give it.
Then it asks more, and we give it.
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- Dedication
- For Michael
- First words
- At times
the heart
stands back
and looks at the body...
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