Collected Poems

“Readers couldn’t choose a more trustworthy companion to the life of feeling than the poetry of Jane Kenyon, now collected in a single, beautiful volume…Essential reading…Every page of Jane Kenyon’s [Collected Poems] offers a pleasure: clarity, gentle humor, calm and acute observation, and a movingly rendered struggle to understand the life she sees before her.”—Mark Doty, O Magazine

“The poems themselves—her six books gathered in one new volume, Collected Poems—are the best argument for her place in history.” —The New York Times Book Review

“[Kenyon’s] memorable poems trace the channels of extraordinary spiritual trials and the measured redemptions of an extraordinary imagination.” —Robert Pinsky, Washington Post Book World

“A treasure.” —The Boston Globe

Jane Kenyon is considered one of America’s best contemporary poets. Her previous collection, Otherwise: New & Selected Poems, published just after her death in 1995, has been a favorite among readers, with over 60,000 copies in print, and is already a contemporary classic.

Now at the ten-year anniversary of her death, Kenyon’s Collected Poems assembles all of her 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.