Sometimes the Heart is a Shallow Autumn River

Abstract

Sometimes the Heart is a Shallow Autumn River Jane Hirshfield (bio) Is rock and shadow, bird.Is fry, as the smallest fish are called,darting in the pan of nearness. The frog's flawless interpretation of the music "Leaf"is a floating black-eyed emeraldslipped between the water and its reflections. And caution and hope and sorrow?As umbrellas are, to a mountain or field of grass. [End Page 309] Jane Hirshfield Jane Hirshfield's seventh poetry collection, Come, Thief, will be published by Knopf in 2011. Her most recent book, After, was named a best book of 2006 by The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, and England's Financial Times. Other new work appears in The New Yorker, Poetry, and Orion. Hirshfield is also the author of Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry and Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women (Harper Perennial, 1998). Copyright © 2010 The Johns Hopkins University Press