Author: Jane Hirshfield

Cited by

• Ru Freeman (2)
  • IN: On Sal Mal Lane (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Either a person entirely broken nor one entirely whole can speak. In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.
    FROM: "In Praise of Coldness", Given Sugar, Given Salt, (2001), Poem, US
  • IN: On Sat Mal Lane (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Neither a person entirely broken nor one entirely whole can speak. In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.
    FROM: "In Praise of Coldness", Given Sugar, Given Salt, (2001), Poem, US
• Joakim Zander (1)
  • IN: The Swimmer (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Around us, the madness of empires continues.
    FROM: "Washing Doorknobs", (2010), Poem, US
• Dawn French (1)
  • IN: According to YES (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I moved my chair into sun I sat in the sun the way hunger is moved when called fasting.
    FROM: "I Sat in the Sun", (2013), Poem, US
• Rahul Mehta (1)
  • IN: No Other World (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Within this tree another tree inhabits the same body; within this stone another stone rests, its many shades of grey the same, its identical surface and weight. And within my body, another body, whose history, waiting, sings: there is no other body, it sings, there is no other world.
    FROM: "Within This Tree", (1991), Poem, US
• Petina Gappah (1)
  • IN: An Elegy for Easterly (2009) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: More and more I have come to admire resilience. Not the simple resistance of a pillow, whose foam returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous tenacity of a tree: finding the light newly blocked on one side, it turns in another. A blind intelligence, true. But out of such persistence arose turtles, rivers, mitochondria, figs - all this resinous, unretractable earth.
    FROM: Optimism, (None), Poem, NULL