Tag: Bystander
An Urgent Witness, Not a Passive Bystander, to Climate Catastrophe
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December 4, 2023
Conversations with Jane Hirshfield, poet of the present moment.
At first there was more to eat, then suddenly less.
—“Aubade Now of Earth” (2022)
I was on my way to visit Jane Hirshfield—but first I had to get to Stinson Beach without driving off a cliff into the pitch-dark Pacific. The fog was thick along the high,