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Spell to Be Said Against Hatred
"It is especially in times of uncertainty, in tremulous times of fear
and loss, that the curtain rises and the minstrel show resumes -- a show
of hate that can be as vicious and pointed as the murderous violence
human beings are capable of directing at one another, or as ambient and
slow-seething as the deadly disregard for the universe of non-human
lives with which we share this fragile, irreplaceable planet.[...] How
to end the mockery and the minstrel show is what poet Jane Hirshfield --
one of the most unboastfully courageous voices of our time, an ordained
Buddhist, a more-than-humanitarian: a planetarian -- explores in "Spell
to Be Said against Hatred," a miniature masterwork of quiet, surefooted
insistence and persistence."
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