Otherwise: New & Selected Poems
This collection stands as something of a tribute to Jane Kenyon, who died in 1995 at the age of 48.Otherwisecontains 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.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.