Jane Hirshfield reads from her ninth collection of poems, Ledger (2020), which meditates on the cascading effects of climate change and the griefs of contemporary human life. In recognition of National Poetry Month, she opens with "The Poet" from The Lives of the Heart (1997) and selections from The Ink Dark Moon (1988), her translations of Classical Period Japanese poets Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu. She closes with uncollected new work.
Hirshfield, Jane. The Lives of the Heart. New York: HarperCollins, 1997.
Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu. The Ink Dark Moon. Edited and translated by Jane Hirshfield with Mariko Aratani. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988, pp. 3, 35, 38.
The second poem is read from the 1990 Vintage paperback edition and does not appear in the 1988 edition.
Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu. The Ink Dark Moon. Edited and translated by Jane Hirshfield with Mariko Aratani. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988, pp. 41-43, 54, 63, 116.
Hirshfield, Jane. Ledger. New York: Knopf, 2020.
Hirshfield, Jane. Ledger. New York: Knopf, 2020.
Hirshfield, Jane. Ledger. New York: Knopf, 2020.
Hirshfield, Jane. Ledger. New York: Knopf, 2020.
Hirshfield, Jane. Ledger. New York: Knopf, 2020.
Hirshfield, Jane. Ledger. New York: Knopf, 2020.
Hirshfield, Jane. Ledger. New York: Knopf, 2020.
Hirshfield, Jane. Ledger. New York: Knopf, 2020.
Hirshfield, Jane. Ledger. New York: Knopf, 2020.
Hirshfield, Jane. Ledger. New York: Knopf, 2020.
Hirshfield, Jane. Ledger. New York: Knopf, 2020.
Hirshfield, Jane. Ledger. New York: Knopf, 2020.
Hirshfield, Jane. Ledger. New York: Knopf, 2020.
Hirshfield, Jane. Ledger. New York: Knopf, 2020.
Hirshfield, Jane. Ledger. New York: Knopf, 2020.
Hirshfield, Jane. Ledger. New York: Knopf, 2020.
Hirshfield, Jane. Ledger. New York: Knopf, 2020.
Hirshfield, Jane. Ledger. New York: Knopf, 2020.
Hirshfield, Jane. Ledger. New York: Knopf, 2020.
Hirshfield, Jane. Ledger. New York: Knopf, 2020.
Hirshfield, Jane. Ledger. New York: Knopf, 2020.
Hirshfield, Jane. "Tin." The New Yorker, vol. 97, no. 28, September 13, 2021. Web. Accessed 21 April 2023.
Hirshfield, Jane. "Manifest." The New Yorker, vol. 98, no. 24, August 15, 2022, p. 64.
Hirshfield, Jane. "Mosses." Scientific American, vol. 327, no. 5, November 2022, p. 28.
