Collected Poems

Collected Poems

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All of Jane Kenyon’s published poems gathered in one definitive collection, now in paperbackYes, 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.

Jane 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.

From 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

“In a just world, Otherwise–beautifully designed by Graywolf–would become a bestseller.” —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

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Weight 1 oz
Dimensions 28 × 153 × 228 in