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This title in other editionsCollected Poemsby Jane Kenyon
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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. Synopsis:At the ten-year anniversary of her death, Kenyon's "Collected Poems" assembles all of her published poetry in one book. Synopsis: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, About the AuthorJane Kenyon is the author of Otherwise: New and Selected Poems and A Hundred White Daffodils. She lived with her husband, Donald Hall, in Wilmot, New Hampshire, until her death in 1995. Table of ContentsFrom 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 Afternoon in the House Full Moon in Winter After an Early Frost Year Day The Suitor American Triptych Now That We Live The Boat of Quiet Hours (1986) I: "Walking Along in Late Winter" Evening at a Country Inn At the Town Dump Killing the Plants The Painters Back from the City Deer Season November Calf The Beaver Pool in December Apple Dropping into Deep Early Snow Drink, Eat, Sleep Rain in January Depression in Winter Bright Sun after Heavy Snow II: "Mud Season" The Hermit The Pond at Dusk High Water Evening Sun Summer 1890: Near the Gulf Photograph of a Child on a Vermont Hillside What Came to Me Main Street: Tilton, New Hampshire Teacher Frost Flowers The Sandy Hole Depression Sun and Moon Whirligigs February: Thinking of Flowers Portrait of a Figure Near Water Mud Season III: "The Boat of Quiet Hours" Thinking of Madame Bovary April Walk Philosophy in Warm Weather No Steps Wash Inertia Camp Evergreen The Appointment Sick at Summer's End Along for a Week The Bat Siesta: Barbados Trouble with Math in a One-Room Country School The Little Boat IV: "Things" Song At the Summer Solstice Coming Home at Twilight in Late Summer The Visit Parents' Weekend: Camp Kenwood Reading Late of the Death of Keats Inpatient Campers Leaving: Summer 1981 Travel: After a Death Yard Sale Siesta: Hotel Frattina After Traveling Twilight: After Haying Who Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks Things Let Evening Come (1990) Three Songs at the End of Summer After the Hurricane After Working Long on One Thing Waking in January before Dawn Catching Frogs In the Grove: The Poet at Ten The Pear Christmas Away from Home Taking Down the Tree Dark Morning: Snow Small Early Valentine After the Dinner Party Leaving Barbados The Blue Bowl The Letter We Let the Boat Drift Spring Changes Insomnia April Chores The Clearing Work Private Beach At the Spanish Steps in Rome Waiting Staying at Grandma's Church Fair A Boy Goes into the World The Three Susans Learning in the First Grade At the Public Market Museum: Charleston, South Carolina Lines for Akhmatova Heavy Summer Rain September Garden Party While We Were Arguing Dry Winter On the Aisle At the Winter Solstice The Guest Father and Son Three Crows Spring Snow Ice Out Going Away Now Where? Letter to Alice After an Illness, Walking the Dog Wash Day Geranium Cultural Exchange Homesick Summer: 6:00 a.m. Walking Notes: Hamden, Connecticut Last Days Looking at Stars At the Dime Store Let Evening Come With the Dog at Sunrise Constance (1993) I: "The Progress of a Beating Heart" August Rain, after Haying The Stroller The Argument Biscuit Not Writing Windfalls II: "Tell me how to bear myself . . . " Having It Out with Melancholy Litter Chrysanthemums Climb Back Moving the Frame Fear of Death Awakens Me III: "Peonies at Dusk" Winter Lambs Not Here Coats In Memory of Jack Insomnia at the Solstice Peonies at Dusk The Secret IV: "Watch Ye, Watch Ye" Three Small Oranges A Portion of History Potato Sleepers in Jaipur Gettysburg: July 1, 1863 Pharaoh Otherwise Notes from the Other Side Last Poems in Otherwise (1996) and in A Hundred White Daffodils (1999) Happiness Mosaic of the Nativity: Serbia, Winter 1993 Man Eating Man Waking Man Sleeping Cesarean Surprise No Drawing from the Past The Call In the Nursing Home How Like the Sound Eating the Cookies Spring Evening Prognosis Afternoon at MacDowell Fat The Way Things Are in Franklin Dutch Interiors Reading Aloud to My Father Woman, Why Are You Weeping? The Sick Wife The Uncollected Poems What It's Like Indolence in Early Winter Breakfast at the Mount Washington Hotel At the IGA: Franklin, New Hampshire Translations: Twenty Poems of Anna Akhmatova (1985) Index of Poem Titles and First Lines What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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