Jane Hirshfield

Jane Hirshfield is a poet, essayist, editor, translator, and Tricycle contributing editor. She practiced at San Francisco Zen Center, Tassajara, and Green Gulch Farm between 1974 and 1982 and received lay ordination in 1979.

CultureMagazine | On Language

To Speech

          This first, this last:there’s nothing you wouldn’t say. Unshockable inclusion your most pure nature,and so you are like an iron pot—whatever’s put in, it holds. We think it’s the fire that…

By Jane Hirshfield

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