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"Otherwise" collects a lifetime's work of poetry by one of America's best-loved poets. Opening with 20 new poems and including generous selections from Jane Kenyon's four previous books, this collection was selected and arranged by Kenyon shortly before her death in April 1995. An ALA Notable Book.

"In a just world, 'Otherwise'...would become a bestseller. Only the captious might fault Kenyon for being a little too quick to indulge her tendency to brood--in one poem she tells herself to quit moaning and go out and hang the laundry on the line--but then without her mortal fears she might never have written [the] wistful masterpiece...."

Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World, 06/02/1996

"The poems in OTHERWISE brook no sentimentality; their pathos is natural, apt. The poet here wears a housewife's apron, hangs wash on the line, walks a family dog and draws her thoughts from a melancholy, ecstatic soul as if from the common well....The poems...are reflective, unswervingly focused on what we call everyday life, though, as she makes clear, there is no such thing as the ordinary."

Carol Muske, New York Times Book Review, 01/05/1997

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