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	Collected Poems Jane Kenyon 1555974287 Sept 2005 Hardcover ·
From Publishers Weekly In the 10 years since Jane Kenyon's death at the age of 47, her reputation has only grown. Her books are assigned; her life has been memorialized by husband Donald Hall in the book-length elegy Without (1998) and The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon, a memoir out just last month from Houghton (Reviews, Mar. 7). This collected edition reproduces verbatim the four books Kenyon saw through to press; the poems from two posthumous collections, Otherwise and A Hundred White Daffodils; Kenyon's translations of Akhmatova; and four previously uncollected poems. It's a case of more being less: gems like "Let Evening Come," "Otherwise" and "Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks" feel a little hidden here, despite Kenyon's careful composition and ordering of her work. The selected Otherwise will remain the...


	Simply Lasting Joyce Peseroff 1555974295 Sept 2005 Paperback ·
From Publishers Weekly "One of the functions of poetry is to keep the memory of people and places and things and happenings alive," Jane Kenyon once said. Peseroff, a poet and friend of Kenyon's, seeks to keep Kenyon, who died of leukemia in 1995, alive in this wide-ranging, if repetitive, volume of personal and critical essays, letters and reviews. In the first chapter, Peseroff presents personal remembrances by the poets Robert Bly, Galway Kinnell, Jean Valentine and Donald Hall (Kenyon's widower), among others. Kenyon, beautiful and wild haired, prunes her garden, cooks onions and reads her quiet poems. She showed the same self to all who met her, and many witnessed her depression, a common theme among the varied pieces. Hall's essay, "Ghost in the House" is particularly frank. "Despite her thoughts about hanging herself with a...


	Without: Poems Donald Hall 0395957656 April 1999 Paperback ·
Book Review Eagle Pond Farm, familiar even to casual readers of poet Donald Hall (author of 13 volumes of poetry spanning over 40 years), constitutes his spiritual and geographic center. He moved there permanently in 1975 after marrying the young and talented poet Jane Kenyon. His long relationship to Eagle Pond Farm and the creative haven the two poets created gives Without a special poignancy. It is where, in 1995, Jane Kenyon died. The facts are hard but simple. In 1994, Jane Kenyon--who at 46 was beginning to enjoy the growing recognition of her work--was diagnosed with leukemia. Kenyon and Hall opted for the harrowing bone marrow transplant, to be performed in Seattle. It was not successful, and 12 weeks later, she was dead. Hall began drafting Without during the procedure and subsequent treatment, an act almost impossible to...


	The Best Day the Worst Day Donald Hall 0618478019 May 2005 Hardcover ·
From Publishers Weekly "Jane Kenyon died of leukemia at 7:57 in the morning, April 22, 1995" is the first sentence of this unsparing and beautifully structured memoir. She was only 47, and the struggle was harrowing, but it followed 23 years of an extraordinarily happy marriage between poets, blissful despite the difference in their ages (19 years; she had been his student), and her illness and chronic clinical depression. Alternating with the meticulous account of the progress of Kenyon's disease are warm, joyful chapters as Hall recalls their time together. They lived quietly in a New Hampshire farmhouse that had been in Hall's family for generations, "the house of poetry, which was also the house of love and grief; the house of solitude and art; the house of Jane's depression and my cancers and Jane's leukemia." As increasingly...


	Jane Kenyon John H. Timmerman 0802839436 Sept 2002 Hardcover ·
New York Times Book Review, Novemer 17, 2002 Timmerman’s detailed demonstration of how "the language changes, how the poem grows and comes into focus," is informed and enlightening. Book Description 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...


	Bright Unequivocal Eye Bert G. Hornback 0820445851 Sept 2000 Hardcover ·
Wendell Berry, "Sweetness Preserved" "... It is (Kenyon's) perfection of tone...makes her poems able to accommodate sudden declarations of spiritual knowledge or religious faith..." Book Description In April of 1998 the First Jane Kenyon Conference brought together Donald Hall, Wendell Berry, Galway Kinnell, Alice Mattison, Gregory Orr, and Joyce Peseroff along with a number of scholars, teachers, students, and admirers of Jane Kenyon's poetry. What was said about Jane Kenyon and about her poetry was informed and informative, and often very moving. This volume collects poems and remarks about her and her work by Hall, Berry, Kinnell, Mattison, Orr, and Peseroff, as well as essays by a dozen other conference participants.


	From Room to Room Jane Kenyon 0914086243 Nov 1978 Paperback ·
Publisher Comments "The detail is ravishing. Not a false line or false emotion. Every poem has the tenderness of a child and the terrible knowledge of primal life." Ruth Stone. "Rarely does one encounter a first book which gives so much, so economically; and it is also rare that a first book leaves the reader with so rich a sense of reward, for the poet's careful labors are in the interest of the Mystery lying beneath everyday circumstances." Michael Benedikt. Book Description The poems in Jane Kenyon's first book are full of respect for a life deeply felt. Her vision apprehends the mystery beneath everyday circumstances and objects, from the thimble to the edges of the map. The final section is translations of six poems by Anna Akhmatova. See all Editorial...


	180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day Billy Collins (Editor) 0812972961 March 2005 Paperback ·
Book Description Come full circle with 180 new, exciting poems selected and introduced by Billy Collins. Inspired by Billy Collins’s poem-a-day program for American high schools that he began through the Library of Congress, the original Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry was a gathering of clear, contemporary poems aimed at a wide audience. In 180 More, Collins continues his ambitious mission of exposing readers of all ages to the best of today’s poetry. Here are another 180 hospitable, engaging, reader-friendly poems, offering surprise and delight in a wide range of literary voices–comic, melancholy, reflective, irreverent. If poetry is the original travel literature, this anthology contains 180 vehicles ready to carry you away to unexpected places. With poems by Robert...


	The Boat of Quiet Hours Jane Kenyon 0915308878 Oct 1986 Paperback ·
From Library Journal Some poems begin with a picture, a moment that begs to be rendered in words. Kenyon writes poems like this, and writes them well. Her poems celebrate the moment with wit, charm, and style: "through time and space we came/ to Main Streetthree days before/ Labor Day, 1984, 4:47 in the afternoon;/ and then that moment passed, displaced/ by others equally equivocal." Kenyon's concerns are everyday, but her keen perception and precision of language make each poem memorable. It is a language that is simple but exact: when her lover is not there, "the bed on your side seemed/ as wide and flat as Kansas"; watching a storm swell in the distance"How lucky we are/to be holding hands on a porch/ in the country." These glimpses into Kenyon's life make for interesting reading. A good choice for any poetry collection. Louis...


	Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression Nell Casey 0060007826 January 2002 Paperback ·
Book Review "A reader on melancholy," the editor calls this book: a collection of 22 modern essays about depression by writers (several well known) who know their subject intimately. Some face depression as a sudden interruption of a previously gratifying life; others have never known life without it. Their words wrestle to express their vision, their gloom, their attempts to cope, their interactions, their isolation, and, often, their reactions to medications. Some attempt to analyze their depression; others just want you to know what it's like. Besides the essays by writers who have experienced depression firsthand, editor Nell Casey (also a writer of one of the chapters) includes a few essays by their spouses and siblings about what it was like to live with a person suffering from depression. The writers' descriptions of...


	Let Evening Come Jane Kenyon 1555971318 Apr 1990 Paperback ·
From Publishers Weekly Kenyon ( The Boat of Quiet Hours ) portrays with meticulous detail the healing, regenerative force of nature in the cycles of human emotion and experience. Her understated, deceptively simple poems celebrate the pleasures of domestic, rural life--waking, walking the dog, wash day are here occasions for meditations on the natural world and the joys of ordinary existence: "All afternoon I lifted oak leaves / from the flowerbeds and greeted / like friends the green-white crowns / of perennials. . . . How I hated to come in! . . . " But underlying these observations is a subtle tension masterfully created by Kenyon's exacting language and alternating images of light and ever-encroaching darkness: "The sun drops low over the pond. / Long shadows move out from the stones, / and a chill rises from the moss. . . . " Her...


	Without: Poems Donald Hall 039588408X April 1998 Hardcover ·
Book Review Eagle Pond Farm, familiar even to casual readers of poet Donald Hall (author of 13 volumes of poetry spanning over 40 years), constitutes his spiritual and geographic center. He moved there permanently in 1975 after marrying the young and talented poet Jane Kenyon. His long relationship to Eagle Pond Farm and the creative haven the two poets created gives Without a special poignancy. It is where, in 1995, Jane Kenyon died. The facts are hard but simple. In 1994, Jane Kenyon--who at 46 was beginning to enjoy the growing recognition of her work--was diagnosed with leukemia. Kenyon and Hall opted for the harrowing bone marrow transplant, to be performed in Seattle. It was not successful, and 12 weeks later, she was dead. Hall began drafting Without during the procedure and subsequent treatment, an act almost impossible to...


	Constance Jane Kenyon 1555971962 July 1993 Paperback ·
From Publishers Weekly The cumulative effect of these quiet, unassuming poems lingers long after this slim volume is closed. Kenyon's ( Let Evening Come ) fourth collection is built around two perfectly orchestrated poem sequences. In the first, the speaker contrasts memories of her baby carriage with other images from her childhood, such as her parents' toiling away at low-paying jobs. She also recalls the present-day life of her aging, increasingly dependent mother. Melancholia, the subject of the second sequence and several poems surrounding it, has been played to death in modern poetry, but still Kenyon offers new insights and gives even the most depressing poems an uplifting lilt in their final lines. In her hands a list of the latest medications becomes fit material for poetry: "The coated ones smell sweet or have / no smell; the...


	Otherwise Jane Kenyon 1555972403 Mar 1996 Hardcover ·
Book Review 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. From Publishers Weekly Kenyon's poetry is honest and earnest, rich in imagery yet free of clutter. Always technically proficient, her early...