Books like Otherwise by Jane Kenyon

Nine Horses gathers Billy Collins’s latest poems, blending everyday observations with playful lyricism and quiet reflection.

Tony Hoagland’s collection of witty, intimate poems examines modern American life, advocating clarity and reinvented affection while staying ‘unincorporated.’

Rika Lesser through-composes her books of poems; they are not albums but unities. They are meant to be read in one sitting and can be fearfully intense. In Etruscan Things she followed the circular map of the Etruscan heavens. In All We Need of Hell she seeks to escape the locked boxes of psychiatric wards and medical categorizations. When she succeeds - and she must - it is through art to life. These poems will inevitably be compared to those by other poets who have struggled with depressive illnesses. Rarely, however, does a poet address such topics as illness, mental illness, suicide, and death as singlemindedly as Lesser does here.

Jeffrey Yang’s debut collection, *An Aquarium*, blends vivid imagery of marine life with profound reflections on war, environmental harm, language, and history, as a father’s wisdom guides his newborn son.

"Kenyon's last collection, Otherwise: New & Selected Poems, remains a phenomenon: a best-seller that testifies to the impact Kenyon has had on the poetic landscape."--BOOK JACKET. "A Hundred White Daffodils is a companion volume that sheds illumination on a poet, and a woman, of great presence. It offers glimpses into a life cut too short and traces the influences that created Kenyon's poetic voice. The book includes Kenyon's translations of the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, and insights into how Kenyon chose her as a muse. It presents a variety of Kenyon's prose pieces about the writing life, her spiritual life, her country community, her gardens - themes that readers will well remember from her poems. Transcripts of interviews provide further understanding as Kenyon faces her struggle with depression and the losses wrought by illness. Finally, there is an unfinished, visionary poem that makes one wonder what might have been if Kenyon had been given the chance to create more poetry."--BOOK JACKET.

ix, 47 pages : 21 cm

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