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While I have not always understood Hirschfield, I feel I took away an important aspect of being a good writer and a good person. In particular, Hirschfield points out that being a writer means being a
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This chapter took me a while to read because I would read one of the poems and then get inspired and write one myself, and this happened a few times. I really liked this section though. This was one o
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"Speaking from the point of view of multiplicity, betweenness, and visitation, the writer can become a person in whom both individuality and community may ripen into true expression." (Hirschfield 205
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I like how Hirshfield starts off the chapter by saying the many ways to look at this story and all of its images. I like how she says to consider the play in the light of a concept from anthropology t
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(better late than never haha) ... The reason as to why I chose this poem and why I think it relates to the remembrance chapter is because of the cultural significance that Dinéyazhi' discuses within t
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This final chapter of Nine Gates serves not only as summation of the book itself, but of my own journey as a writer, and a person. I think anyone who gives themselves over to the pursuit of truth - fo
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In this chapter of Nine Gates, Jane Hirshfield describes what she calls the "threshold state of ambiguity, openness and indeterminacy" that poetry and prose allow for writers - as well as their audien
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"Awareness of emptiness brings forth the heart of compassion." What this chapter really imparted in me was the idea of transforming the consciousness. There is a brief moment of time, the space in b
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Within this chapter, Hirshfield maintains that knowledge realm of sound is very dissimilar from that of the visual when considering in what ways poetry works to create remembrance. She details that "s
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I'm just going to link the poem here because it's a pretty long read (but worth it). I chose this poem for a couple of reasons: 1) the epigraph, 2) the repetition. The epigraph is an excerpt from D
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Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men
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Hirshfield's final and probably most impactful chapter really drove home the idea poetry should push boundaries and capture all the joyful and painful life aspects we experience every day. Everyone's
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"For most members of a community, the liminal is a point of transition, entered briefly, at a particular time, in passage towards something else; such persons are dipped into nonidentity and self-forg
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On page 221, Hirshfield says something extremely intriguing (and quite simple). "To speak, and to write, is to assert who we are, what we think." For me, I have always viewed poetry as the opportunity
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Within this chapter of Nine Gates, Hiershfield details the task often assumed by many twentieth century poets that is the task of choosing to look at and explore the part of the human experience that
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