Jane Hirshfield
By: producer, Dominique Lasseur ; director, Catherine Tatge ; a production of Public Affairs Television, Inc ; with Tatge/Lasseur Productions ; a presentation of Thirteen/WNET New York
Contributors: Moyers, Bill D.; Hirshfield, Jane, 1953-; Public Affairs Television (Firm); Tatge/Lasseur Productions; WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.); Films for the Humanities (Firm); Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival (1998 : Waterloo Village, N.J.)
Series: Sounds of poetry with Bill Moyers
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 27
Subjects: Interviews; American Poets; American Women poets; American poetry; Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival (1998 : Waterloo Village, N.J.)
Other titles: Sounds of poetry with Bill Moyers.; Sounds of poetry (Television program)
Description: The effect of Jane Hirshfield's reading is almost transcendental, like the sound of distant echoes in a canyon. In this program, Bill Moyers and Ms. Hirshfield discuss topics including her experience as a practitioner of Zen and the relative merits of sound and silence in poetry.
Notes: Originally broadcast as a segment of: Sounds of poetry.

Director of photography, Joel Shapira ; editor, Joel Katz ; music, The Paul Winter Consort.

Interviewer: Bill Moyers.

Recorded at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, Waterloo Village, New Jersey in 1998.

DVD.