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Kenyon Jane
Collected Poems
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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.
Otherwise: New and Selected Poems
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Otherwise collects a lifetime's work of poetry by one of our most cherished poets. Opening with twenty poems and including generous selections from Jane Kenyon's four previous books-- From Room to Room, The Boat of Quiet Hours, Let Evening Come, and Constance-- this collection was selected and arranged by Kenyon shortly before her death in April 1995.
This extensive collection reveals a scrupulously crafted body of work in which poem after poem achieves a rare and somber grace. Light and shade are never far apart in these telling narratives of life at the poet's New Hampshire home. The shadow of depression in Jane Kenyon's verse has the force of a spiritual presence-- a god, demon, angel. Yet her work emphasizes the constant effort of her imagination to redeem her suffering. As her husband Donald Hall writes in the afterword to Otherwise, we share "her joy in the body and the creation, in flowers, music, and paintings, in hayfields and a dog."
This collection stands as something of a tribute to Jane Kenyon, who died in 1995 at the age of 48. Otherwise contains 20 new poems plus selected works from her four previous collections. The situations from which her lively writing arise often came from her daily life in and around the New Hampshire farm where she lived with her husband. The simple settings provides fertile ground for her richness of language. "As late as yesterday ice preoccupied the pond--dark, half-melted, waterlogged. Then it sank in the night, one piece, taking winter with it. And afterward everything seems simple and good." Beautiful, gracious poetry.
Hundred White Daffodils
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In this enlightening and typically endearing collection of prose and poetry, the late author of five highly regarded books of verse reflects on her writing life, growing spirituality, passionate hobbies, and ultimately fatal struggle with leukemia. Kenyon is one of the most beloved poets on the contemporary American scene; this book shows us why and how this came to be.
Jane Kenyon: A Literary Life
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It is a testament to the enduring power and beauty of Jane Kenyon's poetry that many people - even those not particularly interested in poetry - know her work. What forces and influences shaped Kenyon's writing' And what shaped her as a person and a poet' These are the questions that John Timmerman seeks to answer in Jane Kenyon: A Literary Life. In the opening chapters Timmerman beautifully limns the story of Kenyon's life, drawing on unpublished journals and papers of hers and recollections by her husband, the poet Donald Hall. To show how her art grew out of her life, Timmerman proceeds to explore, volume by volume, the form and substance of Kenyon's work. By frequently examining the multiple drafts that Kenyon wrote in the process of reaching a finished poem, Timmerman reveals how she winnowed and refined ideas, images, and language until a poem was honed to its essence. She was especially interested in the "luminous particular," the arresting image that would focus a poem. She also took care to use simple, grounded language and natural objects and events - often drawing on and reflecting on the life she lived at Eagle Pond Farm in rural New Hampshire. Throughout her life Kenyon struggled with depression, but she never let it define her or her work. She also struggled with her faith almost constantly, yet her faith was "unrelenting," according to Timmerman, and she still wrote poems of great beauty and spiritual consolation. Her poetry, even when very personal, reached out - and still reaches out - to the reader, establishing that vital thread of human connection. Indeed, as Timmerman says, Kenyon's poems are "soundings of the human soul". Kenyon was cut down in the prime of her writing life by leukemia, and Timmerman concludes by exploring Hall's mourning of her death in Without, a wrenching collection of poems. But Kenyon's voice lives on in her work, and Timmerman's insightful, often moving study shows why
The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon
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A candid memoir of love, art, and grief from a celebrated man of letters, United States poet laureate Donald Hall
In an intimate record of his twenty-three-year marriage to poet Jane Kenyon, Donald Hall recounts the rich pleasures and the unforeseen trials of their shared life. The couple made a home at their New England farmhouse, where they rejoiced in rituals of writing, gardening, caring for pets, and connecting with their rural community through friends and church. The Best Day the Worst Day presents a portrait of the inner moods of "the best marriage I know about," as Hall has written, against the stark medical emergency of Jane's leukemia, which ended her life in fifteen months. Between recollections of better times, Hall shares with readers the daily ordeal of Jane's dying through heartbreaking but ultimately inspiring storytelling.
Let Evening Come
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Telegraph reporter wins national award - Alton Telegraph
Alton Telegraph, IL - May 30, 2009
Telegraph reporter wins national award"Journalists in a variety of media have done an outstanding job of focusing on the causes and treatment of stuttering over the past year," said Jane Fraser, president of the 62-year-old nonprofit foundation. "We were particularly pleased this year to
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High school releases second quarter honor rolls - Ridgefield Press
Ridgefield Press, USA - Feb 04, 8989
High school releases second quarter honor rollsElizabeth Abercrombie, Hannah Anderson, Kira Armbrust, Emma Barlow, Shannon Beauregard, Kevin Berger, Kiera Bloch, Anna Blum, Mary Jane Boscia, Matthew Burdumy, Kathryn Cholko, Shompa Choudhury, Brita Christensen, Kimberly Cohen, Allison Collins,
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TO AND STOPPING THE LAUGHTER - Rochester R News
Rochester R News, NY - May 21, 2009
TO AND STOPPING THE LAUGHTERDallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban apologized to Kenyon Martin's mother for calling her son a thug. Kenyon isn't sure he means it. University of Tennessee football coach Lane Kiffin apologized to Pahokee, Florida for suggesting it doesn't have any gas
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Angel investors give Halcyon a lift - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, MO - May 15, 2009
Angel investors give Halcyon a lift"It seemed to us that the value Solutia and Jane had created was not understood by Solutia, and they were jettisoning something that had intrinsic and inherent business value." Kenyon finishes moving his other building-products business, Habitata,
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Minutes of Hinderwell Parish Council - April 2009 - Staithes and Hinderwell Today
Staithes and Hinderwell Today, UK - May 20, 2009
Minutes of Hinderwell Parish Council - April 2009County Councillor Kenyon pointed out that the dates given at the end of the Minutes for the May meeting and AGM were, in fact, incorrect and should read 7th May 2009 for the monthly meeting and 14th May 2009 for the AGM. Under Any Other Business the
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