Each Happiness Ringed by Lions by Hirshfield, Jane -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Description Title Page Dedication Acknowledgements Contents FROM Given Sugar, Given Salt (1997-2001)

The Envoy Mathematics Red Berries The Room Apple A Hand Habit Rebus Waking This Morning Dreamless After Long Sleep Poem Holding Its Heart in One Fist Leather This Was Once a Love Poem Dream Notebook Button Always She Reads the Same Translation Only When I Am Quiet and Do Not Speak Red Onion, Cherries, Boiling Potatoes, Milk – Inflection Finally Ungraspable by Grammar Linnaean Problem All Evening, Each Time I Started to Say It In Praise of Coldness A Cedary Fragrance The Lie Happiness Is Harder The Gallop Pillow ‘Nothing Lasts’ Great Powers Once Raged Through Your Body ‘A Carbon-based Life Form’ Minotaur Ladder Blue Window Muslin Walker Evans Interior, 1936 Like an Ant Carrying Her Bits of Leaf or Sand Self-portrait in a Borrowed Cabin The Contract Poem with Two Endings A Scale Weighs the Outer World in Pounds and Ounces Bone Moment Elephant Seals, Año Nuevo Preserve Rock One Life Is Spent, the Other Spends Us August Day Balance Identity For Horses, Horseflies Speed and Perfection Optimism Five-legged Chair Tree Silk Cord The Silence Sleep Clock Ink Metempsychosis

FROM The Lives of the Heart (1994-1997)

The Lives of the Heart I. Heart Starting and Stopping in the Late Dark

The Heart’s Counting Knows Only One

Not Moving Even One Step Secretive Heart The New Silence Mule Heart The World Loved by Moonlight Salt Heart On the Beach Abundant Heart Heart Starting and Stopping in the Late Dark Standing Deer Da Capo The Adamantine Perfection of Desire Irreversible Heart Heart Pressing Further II. Not-Yet

Not-Yet

The Gift Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight Leaf Studying Wu Wei, Muir Beach Hope and Love Painting The Fire Manners/Rwanda Late Prayer Calmness Respite Orange Oil in Darkness The Four-postered Beds of Mycenae Jasmine III. The Sweetness of Apples, of Figs

The Sweetness of Apples, of Figs

Noon Bells, Lake Como Changing Everything Bees Mulberries Mele in Gabbia Wine Grapes for Breakfast The Bearded Woman Lying A Month of Days and Nights Love amid Owl Cries The Clock IV. Each Happiness Ringed by Lions

Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World

Letting What Enters Enter Lake and Maple Knowing Nothing If the Rise of the Fish Reading Chinese Poetry Before Dawn The Poet White Curtain in Sunlight and Wind A Room One Penny Cabin The Illuminist Broken-off Twig Budding Out in the Path Blind Fate Walking on Ice in the Woods Matter and Spirit Spell To Be Said Upon Waking Spell To Be Said Before Sleep Spell To Be Said After Illness Spell for Inviting-in the New Soul Spell To Be Said Upon Departure Lion and Angel Dividing the Maple Between Them Milk Talc Each Happiness Ringed by Lions Three Times My Life Has Opened

FROM The October Palace (1988-1994)

The Kingdom I. What the Heart Wants

What the Heart Wants

Each Step The Shadow Cycladic Figure: The Harp Player (ca. 3000 B.C.E.) History as the Painter Bonnard The Wedding A Plenitude Narcissus: Tel Aviv, Baghdad, San Francisco; February 1991 ‘Perceptibility Is a Kind of Attentiveness’ In the Year Eight Hundred A Recurring Possibility Floor The Hawk Cry Autumn What Falls The Door II. The Answering Yes

1973

Happiness This Love Inspiration The Love of Aged Horses Percolation The Groundfall Pear A Breakable Spell The Water Diamonds The Task In Yellow Grass Even the Vanishing Housed III. The October Palace

A Sweetening All Around Me As It Falls

Of the Body The Thief Leaving the October Palace Ripeness The Weighing Meeting the Light Completely The Gods Are Not Large The Heart As Origami An Earthly Beauty Within This Tree Empedocles’ Physics The Stone of Heaven

FROM Of Gravity & Angels (1982-1988)

I. To Hear the Falling World

After Work

In a Net of Blue and Gold Invocation To Hear the Falling World Dialogue Justice Without Passion The Song Woman in Red Coat Heat II. For What Binds Us

Of Gravity & Angels

I Have No Use for Virgins Tonight the Incalculable Stars For What Binds Us III. The Other Earth

November, Remembering Voltaire

Proteus Entering Water Evening, Late Fall October 20, 1983 On Reading Brecht Recalling a Sung Dynasty Landscape The Pattern That Connects Toward the Infinite With Singing and Banners Autumn Quince Childhood, Horses, Rain Lullabye

FROM Alaya (1971-1981)

The Stream of It Those Chinese Poems Like Salt Everything That Is Not You December Solstice, ’73 And

Biographical note Copyright

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