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 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, andConstance--as well as the poems that appear in her posthumous volumesOtherwise andA Hundred White Daffodils, four poems never before published in book form, and her translations inTwenty Poems of Anna Akhmatova.