Jane Hirshfield - Possibility, Poetry, and a Life of Attention

It would feel wrong to place labels on Jane Hirshfield. Language would fail to reach there, ironic for someone who has devoted their life to the practice of poetry and the practice of Zen Buddhism. Jane is a modern master, change-maker, and wise and winsome voice.

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Show Notes:

• The Ritual Process by Victor Turner (09:30)
• nonattachment (14:00)
• Poem: "My Skeleton" (21:30)
• Poem: "For What Binds Us" (28:20, read 33:00)
• Poets for Science (29:10; 56:30)
• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (31:00)
• Poem: "Let Them Not Say" (32:10)
• Gary Snyder (32:00)
• Palimpsest (36:20)
• Poem: "My Hunger" (42:20)
• Poem: "I Sat in the Sun" (45:30)
• Man's Search for Meaningby Victor Frankl (48:00)
• Neti Neti (49:00)
• Poem: "Possibility: An Assay" (50:30)
• Stuart Kauffman's theory of adjacent possible (55:30)
• The 'assay' form of poetry (56:30)
• Poets for Science in New York Times (57:00)
• Poem: "On the Fifth Day" (58:40)
• March for Science (59:00)
• Wick Poetry Center and David Hassler on Origins (01:01:00)
• Nobel Science Summit (01:01:00)
• Videos of poets in poets for science mentioned (01:02:00)
• Brian Eno (01:06:30)
• Lightning Round (01:06:00):
  • book: The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf 
  • passion: being an embodied person outside of words; natural horsemanship
  • heart sing: conversations
  • screwed up: Poem: "My Failure"
• Astonishing the Gods by Ben Okri (01:12:00)
• Find Jane online:
  • The Asking: New & Selected Poems 

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