Jane Kenyon Bücher

“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.

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.