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Title: Otherwise: New and Selected Poems by Jane Kenyon, Donald Hall ISBN: 1555972667 Publisher: Graywolf Press Pub. Date: August, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Rating: 5
Summary: Bright Stars on a Winter Night
Comment: Jane Kenyon's OTHERWISE is perhaps the best collection of American poetry in the past decade. With her accessible and illuminating poems, Ms. Kenyon captures the essence of life in all its ordinariness and extraordinariness. "Let Evening Come," for example, is a nearly perfect gem -- thoughtful, concise, movingly eloquent. Throughout this collection, the poet demonstrates a remarkable clarity of vision; her diction and meter are gorgeous, her wit and insight profound yet never burdensome. Whether recalling a scene from her childhood, an hour in winter, a cancer treatment, a death in the family, or a walk with the dog, Ms. Kenyon inspires, illuminates, and entertains.
Rating: 5
Summary: Captivating and Honest
Comment: I absolutely love this book. Jane Kenyon's poetry describes some of the most simple, daily activities in a way that brings out their hidden beauty and grace. You can sense the careful observation and truthfullness of what she describes, yet as you read you can interpret the symbolism behind certain passages and the realizations there aswell. I feel so deeply connected with this book. Her poetry speaks the words we cannot say. You won't regret buying this book.
Rating: 3
Summary: The Struggle and Beauty of Living
Comment: Jane Kenyon's poems show a keen observation of everyday detail -- "the luminous particular," as her husband Donald Hall puts it -- with a muted level of emotion. A typical poem in this ample collection meanders through several fine images, then pulls them together at the end with a description of mood or a realization. Kenyon is especially fond of the smell of wet earth, the sound of rain, and images of water. In general, her images are much more successful than her similes. Some of her beautiful phrases are reminiscent of traditional Chinese poetry: "...the water...stares back at the moon from its cool terra-cotta urn"; of Sharon Olds: "Not dark enough, not the utter darkness he desired"; and of Anna Akhmatova, whom she translated from the Russian, cf. Kenyon's poem "The Appointment." In the poem "Trouble with Math..." an incident about undeserved punishment ends with, "She led me, blinking and changed, back to! the class." -- Changed in what way? The author's language is spare and delicate, but sometimes the point gets lost. The overall impression is that the author was straining toward happiness, and she made the most of the occasional window of opportunity allowed her by illness. I found the book pleasant to read, but when it was once closed, very little remained with me. This author does not have the same clarity and robustness as, say, Luise Gluck, another poet who suffered from depression. But I did find Jane Kenyon poignant and alive when she spoke directly about her experience of illness, e.g. when she says, "I'm falling upward, nothing to hold me down."
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Title: Without : Poems by Donald Hall ISBN: 0395957656 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Hundred White Daffodils by Jane Kenyon, Jack Kelleher, Donald Hall ISBN: 1555973086 Publisher: Graywolf Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Let Evening Come: Poems by Jane Kenyon ISBN: 1555971318 Publisher: Graywolf Press Pub. Date: April, 1990 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Painted Bed: Poems by Donald Hall ISBN: 0618187898 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 11 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Constance: Poems by Jane Kenyon ISBN: 1555971962 Publisher: Graywolf Press Pub. Date: August, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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