Skip to content
Rethink.
Ora sono ubriaco d'universo. (Ungaretti)
  • Home
  • About Me
  • Blogroll
  • Index
  • Key Posts
  • Media
  • Research

Tag: jane hirshfield

poetry

Jane Hirshfield, “I sat in the sun”

Posted on October 27, 2020 by ashok / 1 Comment

“Draw not nigh hither,” says the Lord to Moses; “put off thy shoes from off they feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground” (Exodus, 3, 5). There...

poetry

Jane Hirshfield, “I Know You Think I’ve Forgotten”

Posted on September 6, 2018 by ashok / 0 Comment

You think I’ve forgotten—the experience of you is now a mixture of memory and pain. My feeling that you could reasonably doubt me wells up, causing both g...

poetry

Jane Hirshfield, “Pyracantha and Plum”

Posted on May 31, 2018 by ashok / 0 Comment

Out the window, I would spy a mulberry tree and a pair of birches which were set against a coniferous treeline separating our yard from the neighbor’s. Wh...

poetry

Izumi Shikibu, “Although the wind…”

Posted on August 17, 2017 by ashok / 0 Comment

The moon in Japanese poetry is always the moon. Hirshfield begins a brief, personal interpretation of the poem below with this cryptic, lovely sentence. We̵...

poetry

Jane Hirshfield, “Late Prayer”

Posted on August 10, 2017 by ashok / 2 Comments

Moonlight fell on the lake, and I felt myself drawn to the waves covered by darkness, still visible, with a rich, silky texture of various shades of black. They...

Posts navigation

1 2 Next »

About Ashok

Student of Political Philosophy. Writes too much, badly needs an editor. Everything on this blog will eventually be revised or eliminated. The hope of this blog is to present you varied, thoughtful works, ones not typically engaged online. Contact me.

Categories

Archives

"I hold there is no sin but ignorance" - Machiavelli, in Marlowe's The Jew of Malta
Powered by WordPress | Theme: Graphy by Themegraphy