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 contem[...]
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[...]