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Let evening come : selected poems / Jane Kenyon.

Title
Let evening come : selected poems / Jane Kenyon.
Author
Kenyon, Jane
Publication
Tarset : Bloodaxe Books, 2005.

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Description
176 p. : ports; 20 cm.
Summary
The work of Jane Kenyon (1947-95) is one of poetry's rarest and most heart-breaking gifts. After fighting depression for most of her life, Jane Kenyon died from leukaemia at the age of 47. Her quietly musical poems are moving, compassionate meditations intently probing the life of the heart and spirit. Observing and absorbing small miracles in everyday life, these apparently simple poems grapple with fundamental questions of human existence. They are psalms of love and death, God and nature, joy and despair "Let the light of late afternoon //shine through chinks in the barn, moving //up the bales as the sun moves down. // Let the cricket take up chafing // as a woman takes up her needles // and her yarn. Let evening come. // Let dew collect on the hoe abandoned // in long grass. Let the stars appear // and the moon disclose her silver horn. // Let the fox go back to its sandy den. // Let the wind die down. Let the shed // go black inside. Let evening come. // To the bottle in the ditch, to the scoop in the oats, to air in the lung let evening come. Let it come, as it will, and don't // be afraid. God does not leave us // comfortless, so let evening come.
Series Statement
Bloodaxe world poets ; 3
Uniform Title
Bloodaxe world poets ; 3.
Processing Action (note)
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Contents
Introduction / Joyce Peseroff -- Ghost in the house / Donald Hall -- For the night -- From room to room -- Here -- Two days alone -- Finding a long gray hair -- The needle -- The shirt -- Falling -- Afternoon in the house -- Full moon in winter -- Year day -- The suitor -- Evening at a country inn -- Back from the city -- November calf -- Rain in January -- Depression in winter -- Ice storm -- Walking alone in late winter -- The pond at dusk -- High water -- Evening sun -- Summer 1890 : near the gulf -- The sandy hole -- February : thinking of flowers -- Portrait of a figure near water -- Thinking of Madame Bovary -- Philosophy in warm weather -- The bat -- Trouble with math in a one-room country school -- The little boat -- Song -- Coming home at twilight in late summer -- After traveling -- Twilight : after haying -- Who -- Briefly it enters, and briefly speaks -- Things -- Three songs at the end of summer -- Catching frogs -- In the grove : the poet at ten -- The pear -- After the dinner party -- The letter -- We let the boat drift -- Spring changes -- April chores -- The clearing -- Work -- At the Spanish steps in Rome -- Staying at Grandma's -- A boy goes into the world -- Lines for Akhmatova -- September garden party -- On the aisle -- Father and son -- Ice out -- Now where? -- Summer : 6:00 A.M. -- Let evening come -- With the dog at sunrise -- August rain, after haying -- Biscuit -- Not writing -- Having it out with melancholy -- Chrysanthemums -- Back -- Moving the frame -- Winter lambs -- Coats -- In memory of Jack -- Peonies at dusk -- Three small oranges -- Potato -- Gettysburg : July 1, 1863 -- Pharoah -- Otherwise -- Notes from the other side -- Happiness -- Mosaic of the nativity : Serbia, winter 1993 -- Man eating -- Cesarean -- Surprise -- No -- In the nursing home -- How like the sound -- Eating the cookies -- Prognosis -- Afternoon at MacDowell -- Fat -- Dutch interiors -- Reading aloud to my father -- Woman, why are you weeping -- The sick wife -- Introduction -- Poems from Evening (1912), Rosary (1914), White Flock (1917) -- Poems from Plantain (1921) -- Various later poems -- Everything I know about writing poetry (1991) -- From an interview with David Bradt (1993).
ISBN
1852246979
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library