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Jane Kenyon had a virtually faultless ear. She was an exquisite master of the art of poetry. –Wendell Berry Published 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.