Bibliograph

From Room To Room, Jane Kenyon

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From Room To Room, Jane Kenyon

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

unknown

Main title

From Room To Room

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

945773779

Responsibility statement

Jane Kenyon

Summary

The poems in Jane Kenyon's first book are full of respect for a life deeply felt. Her vision apprehends the mystery beneath everyday circumstances and objects, from the thimble to the edges of the map. The final section is translations of six poems by Anna Akhmatova

Table Of Contents

1. UNDER A BLUE MOUNTAIN ; For the Night; Leaving Town ; From Room to Room ; Here ; Two Days Alone ; The Cold ; This Morning ; The Thimble ; Changes; Finding a Long Gray Hair ; Hanging Pictures in Nanny's Room ; In Several Colors ; The Clothes Pin ; 2. EDGES OF THE MAP ; The Needle ; My Mother ; Cleaning the Closet ; Ironing Granmother's Tablecloth ; The Box of Beads ; 3. COLORS ; At a Motel Near O'Hare Airport; The First Eight Days of the Beard ; Changing Light ; The Socks ; The Shirt ; Starting Therapy ; Colors ; From the Back Steps; Cages; 4. Afternoon in the HouseAt the Feeder The Circle on the Grass; Falling ; Afternoon in the House ; Full Moon in Winter; After an Early Frost ; Year Day ; The Suitor ; American Triptych ; Now That We Live; 5. Six Poems from Anna Akhmatova; The memory of sun sickness in my heart ... ; I know, I Know the skis ... ; Everything promised him to me ... ; Like a white stone in a deep well ... ; Along the hard crest of the snowdrift ... ; A land not mine, still ..

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