On the dark road, only the weight of the rope.
Yet the horse is there.
—2006
An afternoon with the distinguished poet Jane Hirshfield for a reading and conversation with our founder & host, Meg Weston.
Out in paperback this fall, Jane’s latest book The Asking: New and Selected Poems offers a signature investigation of the conditions, contradictions, uncertainties, and astonishments that shape our existence. Jane will read from poems old and new, and we’ll talk about the things that are important to her today as she reads and writes poetry and centers herself in the face of a world gone off-kilter.
In the Blaney Lecture she delivered for the Academy of American Poets “Making the Invisible Visible: Some Thoughts on Poetry & Science,” she says: To change from the mind of sentence to the mind of question may be the primordial tool for seeing more... It may be that the first question is: Is there a question that might be asked here? The next: What is it?
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