After : poems / Jane Hirshfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hirshfield, Jane, 1953-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

97 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : HarperCollins, [2006]

Summary:

This profound and masterful new collection of poems is by one of the preeminent American poets of her generation.

Contents:

After Long Silence 1

Pyracantha and Plum 2

Flowering Vetch 3

Theology 4

Hope: An Assay 6

To Judgment: An Assay 7

Those Who Cannot Act 9

Sheep's Cheese 10

Beneath the Snow, the Badger's Steady Breathing 11

Sky: An Assay 12

Pocket of Fog 13

Articulation: An Assay 14

Translucence: An Assay 15

What Is Usual Is Not What Is Always 16

The Mountain 17

Tears: An Assay 18

Poe: An Assay 19

The Refusal 21

Dog and Bear 22

Downed Branch 23

Vilnius 24

"Of": An Assay 25

"To": An Assay 26

"And": An Assay 28

Study of Melon & Insect 29

A Man Walks Through His Life 30

A Day Comes 31

The Double 32

Not Only Parallel Lines Extend to the Infinite 34

I Imagine Myself in Time 35

The Meeting 36

Wanting More and More to Live Unobserved, Unobserving 37

The Destination 38

Late Self-Portrait by Rembrandt 39

Ryoanji: An Assay 40

To Opinion 41

The Woodpecker Keeps Returning 43

"It is night. It is very dark" 44

Bonsai 45

The Promise 46

The Heat of Autumn 47

To Wake at 3:00 48

Dog Still Barking at Midnight 49

Two Washings 50

Termites: An Assay 51

Envy: An Assay 52

Hesitation: An Assay 53

Once: An Assay 54

Burlap Sack 56

The Monk Stood Beside a Wheelbarrow 57

I Write These Words to Delay 58

Seventeen Pebbles 59

To Spareness 65

"Ah!": An Assay 67

Against Certainty 68

Jasper, Feldspar, Quartzite 69

Instant Glimpsable Only for an Instant 70

One Sand Grain Among the Others in Winter Wind 71

To Speech 72

Possibility: An Assay 76

Bad Year 77

Serrano Pepper 78

This Much Is Promised 79

In a Room with Five People, Six Griefs 80

Ask Much, the Voice Suggested 81

To Gravel: An Assay 82

Each Morning My Neighbor Walks Out 83

Between the Material World and the World of Feeling 84

Red Scarf 85

The Bell Zygmunt 86

Letter to C. 87

The Dead Do Not Want Us Dead 91

It Was Like This: You Were Happy 92.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0060779160

OCLC:

60671889