Hundred White Daffodils
by Jane Kenyon
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InA 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.Tags
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I am not rating this book as I only read the 30 pages of Anna Akhmatova's "Twenty Poems". However, I did really like those!
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Jane Kenyon (1947-1995) published four collections of poetry during her lifetime: From Room to Room, The Boat of Quiet Hours, Let Evening Come, and Constance, as well as a volume of translations, Twenty Poems of Anna Akhmatova. Kenyon's posthumous publications include Otherwise: New Selected Poems and A Hundred White Daffodils. Her Collected Poems show more was published in 2005. show less
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- Anna Akhmatova
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- Poetry, Fiction and Literature, Home & Garden, Literature Studies and Criticism
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- 891.71 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature East Indo-European and Celtic literatures Russian and East Slavic languages Russian poetry
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- PS3561 .E554 .H86 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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