Jane Hirshfield Video (DVD)

Jane Hirshfield Video (VHS/DVD). The effect of Jane Hirshfield’s reading is almost transcendental, like the sound of distant echoes in a canyon. "I know that many of my poems don’t evoke clapping," she says, "and I want to assure you that I take silence as a high compliment." In this program, Bill Moyers and Ms. Hirshfield discuss topics including her experience as a practitioner of Zen and the relative merits of sound and silence in poetry. Readings by Ms. Hirshfield feature "Three Foxes at the Edge of a Field at Twilight," "Sleep," "Inspiration," "Mule Heart," "For What Binds Us," "Each Happiness Ringed by Lions," and "Three Times My Life Has Opened." (27 minutes).
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