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 contemporary poets. Her previous collection,Otherwise: New and Selected Poems, published just after her death in 1995, has been a favorite among readers, with more than 80,000 copies in print, and is a contemporary classic.

Collected Poems assembles all of Kenyon's 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.