Jane Kenyon - Böcker

Praised by The New York Times Book Review for her words, with their quiet, rapt force, their pensiveness and wit, [that] come to us from natural speech, from the Bible and hymns, from which she derived the singular psalmlike music that is hers alone.' And The New Yorker that heralds her method of turning 'simple or frankly unbeautiful things sideways and inviting us to see what they offer us to love' encouraging the reader to leave this book in a 'quiet, exalted, shining mood.''

Jane Kenyon is one of America's best loved poets. Her previous collection, Otherwise: New & Selected Poems, published just after her death in 1995, has been a favourite among readers, with over 60,000 copies in print and is already considered a contemporary classic. Now at the ten-year anniversary of her death, this volume assembles all of her published poetry in one book. Included here are the complete poems found in her four previous volumes as well as the poems that appear in her posthumous volumes and four poems never before published in book form.

The work of America's Jane Kenyon (1947-95) is one of poetry's rarest and most heart-breaking gifts. After fighting depression for most of her life, Jane Kenyon died from leukemia at the age of 47. Her quietly musical poems are intensely moving, compassionate meditations intently probing the life of the heart and spirit. Observing and absorbing small miracles in everyday life, these apparently simple poems grapple with fundamental questions of human existence. They are psalms of love and death, God and nature, joy and despair. Introduced by Donald Hall and Joyce Peseroff, Let Evening Come also includes an interview with Jane Kenyon, her thoughts on poetry, and her translations of 20 poems by Anna Akhmatova.

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