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"A collection of original poems by Jane Hirshfield exploring the profundities and quirks of existence"-- Full description
Table of Contents:
- Fado
- My Skeleton
- My Proteins
- Mosquito
- My Eyes
- My Species
- My Corkboard
- My Memory
- My Weather
- In My Wallet I Carry a Card
- My Task
- My Sandwich
- A Well Runs Out of Thirst
- In a Room with Many Windows
- A Photograph of a Face Half Lit, Half in Darkness
- A Cottony Fate
- Cellophane: An Assay
- Quartz Clock
- My Life was the Size of My Life
- Perspective: An Assay
- Ordinary Rain. Every Leaf is Wet.
- Things Keep Sorting Themselves
- I Wake Early
- In a Kitchen Where Mushrooms Were Wasted
- Honey
- Hamper
- Florists' Roses
- Mop Without Stick
- The Problem
- In Praise of Being Peripheral
- A Chair in Snow
- Like the Small Hole by the Path-Side Something Lives in
- Wet Spring
- Many-Roofed Building in Moonlight
- Anywhere You Look
- Anatomy and Making
- I Cast My Hook, I Decide to Make Peace
- A Person Protests to Fate
- Twelve Pebbles
- I Wanted Only a Little
- A Common Cold
- This Morning, I Wanted Four Legs
- Once, I
- In Daylight, I Turned on the Lights
- How Rarely I Have Stopped to Thank the Steady Effort
- As a Hammer Speaks to a Nail
- I sat in the Sun
- Of Amplitude There is No Scraping Bottom
- The One Not Chosen
- Snow in April
- February
- Three Mornings
- Away From Home, I Thought of the Exiled Poets
- All Souls
- In Space
- Souvenir
- The Must-Mice
- The Conversations I Remember Most
- Two Linen Handkerchiefs
- Works & Loves
- Perspective Without any Point in Which it Might Vanish
- Runner
- The Beautiful Austere Room
- Not One Moment of this s Subtraction
- I Profess the Uncertain
- Zero Plus Anything is a World
- Entanglement
- Like Two Negative Numbers Multiplied by Rain