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 Poems assembles all of Kenyon's published poetry in one book. Included here are the complete poems found in her four previous volumes--
From Room to Room,
The Boat of Quiet Hours,
Let Evening Come, and
Constance--as well as the poems that appear in her posthumous volumes
Otherwise and
A Hundred White Daffodils, four poems never before published in book form, and her translations in
Twenty Poems of Anna Akhmatova.
