Skip to product information
Graywolf Press

Best Poems of Jane Kenyon: Poems

Regular price $16.00
Sale price $16.00 Regular price $21.00

19 in stock - Almost gone!

"Jane Kenyon had a virtually faultless ear. She was an exquisite master of the art of poetry." --Wendell Berry

Published twenty-five years after her untimely death, The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon presents the essential work of one of America's most cherished poets--celebrated for her tenacity, spirit, and grace. In their inquisitive explorations and direct language, Jane Kenyon's poems disclose a quiet certainty in the natural world and a lifelong dialogue with her faith and her questioning of it. As a crucial aspect of these beloved poems of companionship, she confronts her struggle with severe depression on its own stark terms. Selected by Kenyon's husband, Donald Hall, just before his death in 2018, The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon collects work from across a life and career that will be, as she writes in one poem, "simply lasting."
READ MORE

Book Details

ISBN:
9781644450192
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
112
Authors:
Jane Kenyon
Publisher:
Graywolf Press
Published Date:
2020-04-21
Language:
English

Ships directly from US distribution partners.

Shipping via Economy (6-10 days) or Express (2-3 days)




About the poet: Jane Kenyon

Jane Kenyon (1947–1995) was an American poet whose spare, luminous verse explored domestic life, depression, rural New England, and the natural world with quiet intensity and extraordinary clarity. She lived and wrote on Eagle Pond Farm in New Hampshire with her husband, the poet Donald Hall, and her work is deeply rooted in that place and that partnership. Her collection Otherwise: New and Selected Poems (Graywolf Press, 1996), published after her death from leukemia at age 47, brought her work to its widest audience. The title poem, written in the knowledge of her approaching death, is among the most moving in contemporary American poetry.

See more in this collection »

You also viewed

  • Free Shipping Over $75

Best Poems of Jane Kenyon: Poems - The Poetry Shop

Best Poems of Jane Kenyon: Poems

Regular price $16.00
Sale price $16.00 Regular price $21.00