October Palace

<p><strong>An exquisite accomplishment. These serene and painterly meditations quietly blossom into luminous and sensual lyric reckonings. -- David St. John</strong></p><p><strong>A radiant and passionate collection. -- <em>New York Times Book Review</em></strong></p><p>Grounded in a series of mediations upon the life of the feeling heart in the world Jane Hirshfield's long-awaited third collection of poetry explores the ways that radiance dwells most truly in the ordinary the difficult and the plain.</p>