Of gravity & angels

98 Pages·1988·0.29 MB·English

by  Jane Hirshfield

title: Of Gravity & Angels Wesleyan Poetry
author: Hirshfield, Jane.
publisher: Wesleyan University Press
isbn10 | asin: 0819511382
print isbn13: 9780819511386
ebook isbn13: 9780585371139
language: English
subject American poetry.
publication date: 1988
lcc: PS3558.I694O3 1988eb
ddc: 811/.54
subject: American poetry.
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Of Gravity & Angels
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ALSO BY JANE HIRSHFIELD
Poetry
Alaya
The October Palace
Translation
(with Mariko Aratani)
The Ink Dark Moon:
Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi
Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Japanese Court
WESLEYAN POETRY
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Of Gravity & Angels
Jane Hirshfield
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For Michael
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Published by University Press of New England,
Hanover, NH 03755
Copyright © 1988 by Jane Hirshfield
All rights reserved.
Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6
CIP data appear at the end of the book.
The author wishes to thank the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation, the San Francisco Foundation, and Yaddo for their
general assistance during the writing of this book.
The following poems appeared first in these magazines:
"Ars Poetica," "At Night," "Completing the Weave,'' "Dialogue," "For
What Binds Us," "Heat," "Invocation," "Osiris," "See How the Roads
Are Strewn," and "That Falling" in The American Poetry Review;
"The Song" in The Atlantic; "Lullabye" in The Georgia Review;
"November, Remembering Voltaire" in The New Yorker; "To Hear the
Falling World" and "Evening, Late Fall" in The Paris Review.
Other poems were first published in:
Amicus, The Antioch Review, Black Warrior Review, The California
Quarterly, The Christian Science Monitor, Crosscurrents, Ironwood,
The Marin Review, New Letters, The Ontario Review, Pinchpenny,
Poetry Flash, Poetry Now, The San Diego Poets Press Anthology, The
Sonora Review, The Suisan Valley Review, Tellus, Yellow Silk, and
Zyzzyva. "Justice Without Passion" appeared in the 1988 Pushcart
Prize Anthology.
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CONTENTS
1. To Hear the Falling World
After Work 2
In a Net of Blue and Gold 3
Invocation 4
To Hear the Falling World 5
Dialogue 6
Rain in May 7
Justice without Passion 8
Trompe L'oeil 9
The Song 10
Sleeping in the Afternoon 11
ARS Poetica 12
Woman in Red Coat 13
This Ripeness 14
Music 15
At Night 16
Heat 17
2. For What Binds Us
Desire 20
To Drink 21
In Your Hands 22
Sleeping 23
See How the Roads Are Strewn 24
Of Gravity & Angels 25
I Have No Use for Virgins 26
Tonight the Incalculable Stars 27
A Different Rising 28
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Toward the Solstice 29
Surrounded by All the Falling 30
Doppelgänger 31
That Falling 32
The Music like Water 33
For What Binds Us 34
3. The Other Earth
November, Remembering Voltaire 36
Osiris 37
Proteus Entering Water 38
On the Current Events 39
For the Women of Poland: December 1981 40
Evening, Late Fall 41
October 20, 1983 42
On Reading Brecht 43
The Attempt 44
The Hungry Ghosts 45
Ithaca in Arms 46
In That World, the Angels Wear Fins 47
Ukiyo-E 48
Recalling a Sung Dynasty Landscape 49
Cook 50
Restringing the Beads 51
Pomegranates 52
A Story 53
Needles of Pine, of Morning 54
Tamara Stands in Straw 55
The Other Earth 56