Jane Hirshfield: The Hinge of Possibility
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Jane Hirshfield curates poems that look into the abyss with brave clarity and complex humility. Hirshfield shares Eavan Boland\\u2019s probing into the place of shadows that history passes by (\\u201cQuarantine\\u201d), Miroslav Holub\\u2019s reminder that there is life and meaning beyond human precision (\\u201cBrief Thoughts on Exactness\\u201d), and Tomas Transtr\\xf6mer\\u2019s marrying of the visionary and the vernacular (\\u201cVermeer\\u201d). Hirshfield closes by reading her poem \\u201cDay Beginning with Seeing the International Space Station and a Full Moon Over the Gulf of Mexico and All Its Invisible Fishes.\\u201d
Listen to the full recordings of Boland, Holub, and Transtr\\xf6mer reading for the Poetry Center on Voca:
Eavan Boland (2003)
Miroslav Holub (1988)
Tomas Transtr\\xf6mer (1988)
Listen to a 1995 reading by Jane Hirshfield on Voca.
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