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The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon

Donald Hall

Paperback | Pages: 272 pages

Rating: 4.18 | 613 Users | 87 Reviews

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Original Title:	The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon
ISBN:	0618773622 (ISBN13: 9780618773626)
Edition Language:	English

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A candid memoir of love, art, and grief from a celebrated man of letters, United States poet laureate Donald Hall

In an intimate record of his twenty-three-year marriage to poet Jane Kenyon, Donald Hall recounts the rich pleasures and the unforeseen trials of their shared life. The couple made a home at their New England farmhouse, where they rejoiced in rituals of writing, gardening, caring for pets, and connecting with their rural community through friends and church. The Best Day the Worst Day presents a portrait of the inner moods of "the best marriage I know about," as Hall has written, against the stark medical emergency of Jane's leukemia, which ended her life in fifteen months. Between recollections of better times, Hall shares with readers the daily ordeal of Jane's dying through heartbreaking but ultimately inspiring storytelling.

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Title	:	The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon
Author	:	Donald Hall
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 272 pages
Published	:	November 8th 2006 by Mariner Books (first published 2005)
Categories	:	Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Poetry. Biography. Biography Memoir. Language. Writing. Marriage

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I have, for quite some time, been fascinated by the Jane Kenyon/Donald Hall marriage and its tragic end. I came to it through JK's poems, which I continue to find deep and yet deceptively simple. I didn't find her until just after she died.When DH published his book Without I bought it immediately. However, I was somewhat disappointed. While some of the poems were deeply affecting, I found others to be closer to just a flat out retelling of the events around Jane's death.When I saw DH read about

OtherwiseJane KenyonI got out of bedon two strong legs.It might have beenotherwise. I atecereal, sweetmilk, ripe, flawlesspeach. It mighthave been otherwise.I took the dog uphillto the birch wood.All morning I didthe work I love.At noon I lay downwith my mate. It mighthave been otherwise.We ate dinner togetherat a table with silvercandlesticks. It mighthave been otherwise.I slept in a bedin a room with paintingson the walls, andplanned another dayjust like this day.But one day, I know,it will be

Donald Hall, who was U.S. poet laureate a few years back, released this book shortly after the death of his wife, poet Jane Kenyon. It's mostly a memoir of their love affair, but it's honest enough that it doesn't feel gushy. I loved it, and I plan on reading it again.

This is among my favorite books. Donald Hall's stark portrait of his own grief has allowed me to feel the cherishment that existed within their relationship. This gift they gave one another is framed within the minutiae of everyday living, heightening the sense of their bonds of love and mutual respect for the reader. For me, it was an opportunity to gain some limited emotional access to a kind of relationship I've always believed to exist, but which I've not experienced in my own life. Poetic

Thank you Donald Hall. That's all I can say for now.

In a book of terrible beauty, writer Donald Hall describes in alternating chapters his life with and then the death of his wife, poet Jane Kenyon. I admire Jane Kenyon's sparse packed style. (Last year I used her famous "Let Evening Come" in my middle school writing class when I taught how to analyze poetry.)This is the testimony of a great love and two lives well lived as well as an honest portrait of one woman's final illness and death.

Highly recommended. This memoir was so moving, so gripping in its ability to make the reader feel as if you're beside Jane throughout the dying process...the Leukemia chapters are intense, steeped in exhausting detail, you can't help but grieve for everyone involved. The life chapters are lovely, heartwarming, sometimes a little distant as Hall recounts the memories but perhaps that's part of his grieving process. He's gone now as well, and I read his essays, poetry, as well as Jane's and I plan