A Hundred White Daffodils
Subtitle: Essays, the Akhmatova Translations, Newspaper Columns, Notes, Interviews, and One Poem
By: Jane Kenyon.
Contributors: Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna, 1889-1966.
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Saint Paul, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781555972912
Subjects: Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna, 1889-1966 -- Translations into English
Genres: Translations into English.
Description: "Kenyon's last collection, Otherwise: New & Selected Poems, remains a phenomenon: a best-seller that testifies to the impact Kenyon has had on the poetic landscape."--BOOK JACKET.

"A Hundred White Daffodils is a companion volume that sheds illumination on a poet, and a woman, of great presence. It offers glimpses into a life cut too short and traces the influences that created Kenyon's poetic voice. The book includes Kenyon's translations of the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, and insights into how Kenyon chose her as a muse.

It presents a variety of Kenyon's prose pieces about the writing life, her spiritual life, her country community, her gardens - themes that readers will well remember from her poems. Transcripts of interviews provide further understanding as Kenyon faces her struggle with depression and the losses wrought by illness. Finally, there is an unfinished, visionary poem that makes one wonder what might have been if Kenyon had been given the chance to create more poetry."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes the author's translations from: Twenty poems / Anna Akhmatova. Saint Paul, Minn. : Eighties Press/Ally Press, 1985.