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Recalling
A Sung Dynasty Landscape
Palest wash of stone-rubbed ink
leaves open the moon: unpainted circle,
how does it raise so much light?
Below, the mountains
lose themselves in dreaming
a single, thatch-roofed hut.
Not that the hut lends meaning
to the mountains or the moon--
it is a place to rest the eye after much traveling,
is all.
And the heart, unscrolled,
is comforted by such small things:
a cup of green tea rescues us, grows deep and large,
a lake.
Jane
Hirshfield
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Mt.
Wellington, rising to a height of 1271 metres, is
a spectacular and panoramic backdrop for the city of Hobart.
A short (22 km) drive from Hobart, the mountain has an
observation and information centre on the summit. On a
clear day it is possible to see parts of the state over
100 km away. Wellington Park is a natural reserve covering
an area of 18 250 hectares - an area larger than any of
Tasmania's National Parks outside of the World Heritage
Area. Extending over thirty kilometres from east to west,
with a perimeter length of 139 km, the Park features some
of the State's most recognisable landmarks such as Sleeping
Beauty, Collins Cap and Collins Bonnet, and of course,
Hobart's backdrop, Mount Wellington. The Park features
a diversity of vegetation types ranging from wet sclerophyll
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Friday
22 March, 2002 at 1.00pm -- front garden of the Executive
Building, 15 Murray St.
Sunday
24 March, 2002 at 12.30pm -- Observatory at the Pinnacle
of Mt. Wellington
Poets:
Anthony Lawrence, Louise Oxley, Jenny Herrera, Pete
Hay, Karen Knight, Andrew Sant, Lyn Reeves, James Charlton,
Adrienne Eberhard. Scientists: Roy Swain, Randy
Rose, Sally Bryant, Jamie Kirkpatrick, Alistair Richardson,
Greg Jordan, Andrew Rozefelds, Richard Mount, Adrian
Pyrke.
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Jane
Hirshfield is the author of five books of poetry:
ALAYA (QRL Series, 1982), OF GRAVITY & ANGELS (Wesleyan
University Press, 1988), THE OCTOBER PALACE (HarperCollins,
1994), THE LIVES OF THE HEART (HarperCollins, 1997)
and GIVEN SUGAR, GIVEN SALT (HarperCollins, 2001). She
is editor and co-translator of two now-classic anthologies,
THE INK DARK MOON: POEMS BY KOMACHI & SHIKIBU, WOMEN
OF THE ANCIENT JAPANESE COURT (Vintage Classics, 1990)
and WOMEN IN PRAISE OF THE SACRED: 43 Centuries of Spritiual
Poetry by Women (HarperCollins, 1994). She is also the
author of a collection of essays, NINE GATES: ENTERING
THE MIND OF POETRY (HarperCollins, 1997). Her awards
include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller
Foundations, The Poetry Center Book Award, the Bay Area
Book Reviewers Award, The Commonwealth Club of California's
Poetry Medal, and multiple appearances in BEST AMERICAN
POEMS and THE PUSHCART PRIZE ANTHOLOGY. Her work appears
in such periodicals as The New Yorker, The Atlantic
Monthly, The Nation, The New Republic, and many literary
reviews. She teaches in the Bennington College MFA Writing
Seminars.
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