Collected Poems [Paperback]

All of Jane Kenyon's published poems gathered in one definitive collection, now in paperback

Yes, long shadows go out
from the bales; and yes, the soul
must part from the body:
what else could it do?
from Twilight: After Haying

Jane Kenyon is one of America's most prized contemporary poets. Her previous collection,Otherwise: New and Selected Poems, published just after her death in 1995, has been a favorite among readers, with more than 80,000 copies in print, and is a contemporary classic.

Collected Poemsassembles all of Kenyon's published poetry in one book. Included here are the complete poems found in her four previous volumesFrom Room to Room,The Boat of Quiet Hours,Let Evening Come, andConstanceas well as the poems that appear in her posthumous volumesOtherwiseandA Hundred White Daffodils, four poems never before published in book form, and her translations inTwenty Poems of Anna Akhmatova.

Jane Kenyonis the author ofOtherwise: New and Selected PoemsandA Hundred White Daffodils. She lived with her husband, Donald Hall, in Wilmot, New Hampshire, until her death in 1995.

From Room to Room(1978)

1: Under a Blue Mountain
For the Night
Leaving Town
From Room to Room
Here
Two Days Alone
The Cold
This Morning
The Thimble
Changes
Finding a Long Gray Hair
Hanging Pictures in Nanny's Room
In Several Colors
The Clothes Pin

2: Edges of the Map
The Needle
My Mother
Cleaning the Closet
Ironing Grandmother's Tablecloth
The Box of Beads

3: Colors
At a Motel near O'Hare Airport
The First Eight Days of the Beard
Changing Light
The Socks
The Shirt
Starting Therapy
Colors
From the Back Steps
Cages

4: Afternoon in the House
At the Feeder
The Circle on the Grass
Falling
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