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forgereads17's review
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
sad
medium-paced
5.0
othersideoftherain's review
4.0
while not my favorite of Hirshfield’s titles, this collection is haunting. the poems demand that you to sit with them; there is no immediate gratification. they lurk around the next bend or in the corners of your room, slippery little saints awaiting their veneration.
lookhome's review
4.0
'To be able to hope means also taht we can regret'
Subtle, Sparse, Contemplative.
Cyclical, beautiful and true.
Favourites include:
TO SPEECH
Flowering Vetch,
Pocket of Fog
what Is Usual Is Not What is Always
Tears: An Assay
Vilnius
Of: An Assay
Study Of Melon & Insect
A Man Walks Though His Life
Not Only Parallel Lines Extend to the Infinite
I Imagine Myself in Time
Ryoanji: an Assay
The Promise
Two Washings
Terminates: An Assay
The Monk Stood Beside a Wheelbarrow
Evolution & Glass
The Immortal
Against Certainty
Instant Glimpsable Only For An Instant
One Sand Grain Among the Others In Winder Wind
Between The Material World Of Feeling
Subtle, Sparse, Contemplative.
Cyclical, beautiful and true.
Favourites include:
TO SPEECH
Flowering Vetch,
Pocket of Fog
what Is Usual Is Not What is Always
Tears: An Assay
Vilnius
Of: An Assay
Study Of Melon & Insect
A Man Walks Though His Life
Not Only Parallel Lines Extend to the Infinite
I Imagine Myself in Time
Ryoanji: an Assay
The Promise
Two Washings
Terminates: An Assay
The Monk Stood Beside a Wheelbarrow
Evolution & Glass
The Immortal
Against Certainty
Instant Glimpsable Only For An Instant
One Sand Grain Among the Others In Winder Wind
Between The Material World Of Feeling
happy_stomach's review
3.0
Perhaps it's because I just read Annie Dillard on the Galápagos, but this collection seems to be primarily about grief manifested in animals (albeit more domestic--dogs, mules) and inanimate objects. It's not anthropomorphic exactly, but it's about emotion projected, not so it can be avoided but rather so it can be understood.