Research Catalog

Title

Otherwise : new and selected poems / Jane Kenyon.

Author

Kenyon, Jane.

Publication

Saint Paul : Graywolf Press, [1996], ©1996.

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Details

Description

230 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• Otherwise collects a lifetime's work of poetry by one of our most cherished poets. Opening with twenty new poems and including generous selections from Jane Kenyon's four previous books - From Room to Room, The Boat of Quiet Hours, Let Evening Come, and Constance - this collection was selected and arranged by Kenyon shortly before her death in April 1995.
• This extensive collection reveals a scrupulously crafted body of work in which poem after poem achieves a rare and somber grace. Light and shade are never far apart in these telling narratives of life at the poet's New Hampshire home. The shadow of depression in Jane Kenyon's verse has the force of a spiritual presence - a god, demon, angel. Yet her work emphasizes the constant effort of her imagination to redeem her suffering.
• As her husband Donald Hall writes in the afterword to Otherwise, we share "her joy in the body and the creation, in flowers, music, and paintings, in hayfields and a dog."

Contents

• Happiness -- Mosaic of the Nativity: Serbia, Winter 1993 -- Man Eating -- Man Waking -- Man Sleeping -- Cesarean -- Surprise -- No -- Drawing from the Past -- The Call -- In the Nursing Home -- How Like the Sound -- Eating the Cookies -- Spring Evening -- Prognosis -- Afternoon at Macdowell -- Fat -- The Way Things are in Franklin -- Dutch Interiors -- Reading Aloud to my Father -- For the Night -- From Room to Room -- Here -- Two Days Alone -- This Morning -- The Thimble -- Changes -- Finding a Long Gray Hair -- Hanging Pictures in Nanny's Room -- In Several Colors -- The Clothes Pin -- The Needle -- My Mother -- Cleaning the Closet -- Ironing Grandmother's Tablecloth -- The Shirt -- From the Back Steps -- At the Feeder -- The Circle on the Grass -- Falling -- Afternoon in the House -- Full Moon in Winter -- Year Day -- The Suitor -- American Triptych -- Now That We Live -- Evening at a Country Inn -- At the Town Dump -- Back from the City --
• Deer Season -- November Calf -- The Beaver Pool in December -- Apple Dropping into Deep Early Snow -- Drink, Eat, Sleep -- Rain in January -- Depression in Winter -- Bright Sun After Heavy Snow -- Ice Storm -- Walking Alone in Late Winter -- The Hermit -- The Pond at Dusk -- High Water -- Evening Sun -- Summer 1890: Near the Gulf -- Photograph of a Child on a Vermont Hillside -- What Came to Me -- Main Street: Tilton, New Hampshire -- Frost Flowers -- The Sandy Hole -- Depression -- Sun and Moon -- February: Thinking of Flowers -- Portrait of a Figure Near Water -- Mud Season -- Thinking of Madame Bovary -- Philosophy in Warm Weather -- Wash -- Inertia -- Camp Evergreen -- The Appointment -- Sick at Summer's End -- Alone for a Week -- The Bat -- Trouble with Math in a One-Room Country School -- The Little Boat -- Song -- At the Summer Solstice -- Coming Home at Twilight in Late Summer -- The Visit -- Parents' Weekend: Camp Kenwood --
• Reading Late of the Death of Keats -- Inpatient -- Campers Leaving: Summer 1981 -- Travel: After a Death -- Yard Sale -- Fiesta: Hotel Frattina -- After Traveling -- Twilight: After Haying -- Who -- Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks -- Things -- Three Songs at the End of Summer -- After the Hurricane -- Waking in January Before Dawn -- Catching Frogs -- In the Grove: The Poet at Ten -- The Pear -- Christmas Away from Home -- Taking Down the Tree -- Dark Morning: Snow -- Small Early Valentine -- After the Dinner Party -- The Blue Bowl -- The Letter -- We Let the Boat Drift -- Spring Changes -- Insomnia -- April Chores -- The Clearing -- Work -- Private Beach -- At the Spanish Steps in Rome -- Staying at Grandma's -- Church Fair -- A Boy Goes into the World -- The Three Susans -- Learning in the First Grade -- At the Public Market Museum: Charleston, South Carolina -- Lines for Akhmatova -- Heavy Summer Rain -- September Garden Party -- While We were Arguing --
• Dry Winter -- On the Aisle -- At the Winter Solstice -- The Guest -- Father and Son -- Ice Out -- Going Away -- Now Where? -- Letter to Alice -- After an Illness, Walking the Dog -- Wash Day -- Geranium -- Homesick -- Summer: 6:00 a.m -- Walking Notes: Hamden, Connecticut -- Last Days -- Looking at Stars -- Let Evening Come -- With the Dog at Sunrise -- August Rain, After Haying -- The Stroller -- The Argument -- Biscuit -- Not Writing -- Having it Out with Melancholy -- Litter -- Chrysanthemums -- Back -- Moving the Frame -- Winter Lambs -- Not Here -- Coats -- In Memory of Jack -- Insomnia at the Solstice -- Peonies at Dusk -- Three Small Oranges -- Potato -- Sleepers in Jaipur -- Gettysburg: July 1, 1863 -- Pharaoh -- Otherwise -- Notes from the Other Side -- Afterword / Donald Hall -- The Sick Wife.

ISBN

1555972403

LCCN

95080894

OCLC

• 34519741
• ocm34519741

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries