The October Palace

by Hirshfield, Jane

• ISBN13: 9780060969974
• ISBN10: 0060969970
• Format: Paperback
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

Grounded in a series of mediations upon the life of the feeling heart in the world, Jane Hirshfield's long-awaited third collection of poetry explores the ways that radiance dwells most truly in the ordinary, the difficult, and the plain.

Table of Contents

The Kingdom	p. 3
What the Heart Wants	p. 7
Red Poppies	p. 8
Each Step	p. 9
The Shadow	p. 10
The House in Winter	p. 11
Cycladic Figure: The Harp Player (ca. 3000 B.C.E.)	p. 13
History as the Painter Bonnard	p. 15
The Wedding	p. 16
A Plenitude	p. 18
Narcissus: Tel Aviv, Baghdad, San Francisco; February 1991	p. 20
For the Autumn Dead: Election Day, 1984	p. 21
"Perceptibility Is a Kind of Attentiveness"	p. 23
Storm: Yaddo, 1989	p. 25
In the Year Eight Hundred	p. 27
The Ritual	p. 28
A Recurring Possibility	p. 29
The World	p. 30
Floor	p. 32
The Hawk Cry	p. 33
The Sting	p. 35
Autumn	p. 37
What Falls	p. 38
The Door	p. 40
1973	p. 43
Happiness	p. 45
This Love	p. 46
Inspiration	p. 47
The Love of Aged Horses	p. 48
At Nightfall	p. 49
Percolation	p. 51
The Groundfall Pear	p. 52
At the Roosevelt Baths	p. 53
A Breakable Spell	p. 56
For a Wedding on Mount Tamalpais	p. 58
The Mesmer	p. 59
Under the River	p. 60
Courtship	p. 61
The Water Diamonds	p. 63
For a Gelding	p. 64
The Task	p. 65
In Yellow Grass	p. 66
Even the Vanishing Housed	p. 67
A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls	p. 71
The November Angels	p. 72
Of the Body	p. 74
The Thief	p. 75
Leaving the October Palace	p. 76
Just Below the Surface	p. 77
Ripeness	p. 78
The Weighing	p. 79
Meeting the Light Completely	p. 80
The Gods Are Not Large	p. 81
The Heart as Origami	p. 82
An Earthly Beauty	p. 83
Within This Tree	p. 84
Empedocles' Physics	p. 85
The Window	p. 86
The Stone of Heaven	p. 88
Notes to the Poems	p. 91
About the Author	p. 93
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