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The Beauty
The Beauty: Poems | Jane Hirshfield
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The Beauty, an incandescent new collection from one of American poetrys most distinctive and essential voices, opens with a series of dappled, ranging My poemsMy Skeleton, My Corkboard, My Species, My Weatherusing materials sometimes familiar, sometimes unexpected, to explore the magnitude, singularity, and permeability of our shared existence. With a pen faithful to the actual yet dipped at times in the ink of the surreal, Hirshfield considers the inner and outer worlds we live in yet are not confined by; reflecting on advice given her long agoto avoid the word orshe concludes, Now I too am sixty. / There was no other life. Hirshfields lines cut, as always, directly to the heart of human experience. Her robust affirmation of choice even amid inevitability, her tender consciousness of the unjudging beauty of what exists, her abiding contemplation of our moral, societal, and biological intertwinings, sustain poems that tune and retune the keys of a life. For this poet, Zero Plus Anything Is a World. Hirshfields riddling recipes for that world (add salt to hunger; add time to trees) offer a profoundly altered understanding of our lives losses and additions, and of the small and larger beauties we so often miss.
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kspenmoll
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Why Religion, Gut wrenching, yet sublime memoir, was written by Elaine Pagels, best know for her research & writing on the Gnostic Gospels. The Beauty is a collection of poetry which I loved. #October #November #12booksofChristmas

SamAnne I‘m spiritual, not religious, and don‘t consider myself a Christian. I absolutely love Elaine Pagels and her books on the gnostic gospels and this memoir. 2y
kspenmoll @SamAnne I feel them same. Discovering her all those years ago was like another fascinating unknown world opened up for me. I wonder if she is writing now? 2y
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kspenmoll
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#StillLife #poetry
From my son‘s collection. I am reading her poems that speak to me.

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DoonTheGoon
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So surreal and vibrant and thought provoking - I am sure I will return to these poems again.

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Andrea4
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The "about this poem" that accompanies it is heartbreaking.

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Maryemmylou
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Absolutely stunning, as usual. Hirshfield uses masterful description and playful forms to document daily beauty. Would recommend for poetry lovers and those new to poetry as well.

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LauraBeth
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My Life Was The Size Of My Life - Jane Hirshfield #litsypoetry365 @SharonGoforth

SharonGoforth ❤️❤️ 8y
vivastory Love Jane Hirshfield, saw her a few years ago. Robert Bly was in the audience. 8y
LauraBeth Wow @vivastory! Had I been there I would have ended up watching Robert Bly watch Jane Hirshfield 😀 8y
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Thndrstd
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A book of beautiful poems that find transcendence in the subject matter of everyday life and the musings of age and, of course, the inevitable demise of the body.