
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.
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