The October Palace
Poems
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
1994 - HarperPerennial, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
23,250 words, Guess
Page Count
93 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1412384M
- ISBN-100060553480
- OCLC Control Number28891724
- Library of Congress Control Number93021302
- LibraryThing195258
and 1 more
- Goodreads3639933
Classifications
- DDC811/.54
- LCCPS3558.I694 O25 1994
Description
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.
Description
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. The poems address subjects ranging from the importance of "sabbath" moments in which nothing seems to happen and the love between two aged horses to Lavoisier's discovery of modern chemistry and the 1989 "velvet revolutions" of Eastern Europe. Grounded in a series of meditations upon the life of the feeling heart in the world - a heart envisioned as an almost independent being, whose own needs and desires require of us integration, acceptance, and finally praise - The October Palace is contemplative and sensuous, intellectual and emotional, philosophical and musical, and, above all, serious in its encounter with precisely experienced and deeply questioned life.
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