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Title: Moving toward the heart
Review: I admire and enjoy Jane Hirshfield's work, and, as always, appreciate her audacity in using the word 'heart' (a poetry workshop reject) as the core of her book. On a metaphysical level, heart is all there is, because heart is the essence of a thing. Jane expounds on this assumption by evocatively portraying aspects of the heart to her readers. I highly recommend this book and have turned to it often as inspiration for my own writing; Jane asks not only how, and what, but also why, pointing to the open-ended space at the end of words. Buy the book. (P.S. This review was not an exercise in brevity.)
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