A Hundred White Daffodils: Essays, Interviews, the Akhmatova Translations, Newspaper Columns, and One Poem - Paperback
A Hundred White Daffodils: Essays, Interviews, the Akhmatova Translations, Newspaper Columns, and One Poem - Paperback
Description
by Jane Kenyon (Author), Donald Hall (Introduction by)
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.
Back Jacket
A Hundred White Daffodils is an invaluable companion to Kenyon's best-selling collection, Otherwise: New & Selected Poems. This volume illuminates 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.
Author Biography
Jane Kenyon was born in Ann Arbor and graduated from the University of Michigan. She published five collections of poetry, including Otherwise: New & Selected Poems, and lived and worked with her husband Donald Hall in Wilmot, New Hampshire, until her death in 1995.
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