Collected Poems

Collected Poems

<div><div>All of Jane Kenyon's published poems gathered in one definitive collection, now in paperback</div><div><br><i>Yes, long shadows go out<br>from the bales; and yes, the soul<br>must part from the body:<br>what else could it do?</i><br>--from "Twilight: After Haying"</div><div> </div><div>Jane Kenyon is one of America's most prized contemporary poets. Her previous collection, <i>Otherwise: New and Selected Poems</i>, 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.</div><div><br><i>Collected Poems</i> assembles all of Kenyon's published poetry in one book. Included here are the complete poems found in her four previous volumes--<i>From Room to Room</i>, <i>The Boat of Quiet Hours</i>, <i>Let Evening Come</i>, and <i>Constance</i>--as well as the poems that appear in her posthumous volumes <i>Otherwise</i> and <i>A Hundred White Daffodils</i>, four poems never before published in book form, and her translations in <i>Twenty Poems of Anna Akhmatova</i>. </div></div>