Jane Kenyon Knihy

“Jane Kenyon had a virtually faultless ear. She was an exquisite master of the art of poetry.” ―Wendell BerryPublished twenty-five years after her untimely death, The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon presents the essential work of one of America’s most cherished poets―celebrated for her tenacity, spirit, and grace. In their inquisitive explorations and direct language, Jane Kenyon’s poems disclose a quiet certainty in the natural world and a lifelong dialogue with her faith and her questioning of it. As a crucial aspect of these beloved poems of companionship, she confronts her struggle with severe depression on its own stark terms. Selected by Kenyon’s husband, Donald Hall, just before his death in 2018, The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon collects work from across a life and career that will be, as she writes in one poem, “simply lasting.”

The work of Jane Kenyon is a gift to poetry. Her quietly musical poems are intensely 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.

Superwoman is alive and well and sabotaging our right to an imperfect life. She is feeding our insecurities, damaging our careers and relationships and she is not a great life model to pass on to our daughters. This book is a call-out to women everywhere to be kinder to ourselves and each other and to reclaim our feminine power.

In A Hundred White Daffodils - an enlightening and typically endearing collection of prose and poetry - the late author of five highly regarded books of verse reflects on her writing life, growing spirituality, passionate hobbies, and ultimately fatal struggle with leukemia. Jane Kenyon is one of the most beloved poets on the contemporary American scene; this book shows us why and how this came to be.

Have you ever seen a pink polar bear? Or a violet lion? The author/ illustrator has created a charming picture book with vivid watercolor illustrations for children to learn the names of animals and colors of the rainbow. Follow a grandma and her grandson Calvin on a trip to The Rainbow Zoo. As they visit each animal, right before their eyes the animal suddenly transforms to a color of the rainbow - with a little surprise. The narrative is written in simple rhyme using repetition making it easy for children to join in with the last line of each page.