Simply Lasting: Writers on Jane Kenyon (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781555974299)

In personal and critical essays, letters, poems, an interview, and reviews by writers around the country, Jane Kenyon's life and works are considered and celebrated for their tenacity, spirit, and timeless charm. Simply Lasting includes new responses to Kenyon's poetry and reviews and criticism written during her lifetime, as well as never-before-published letters from Kenyon herself. Poet, editor, and longtime friend of Kenyon, Joyce Peseroff has gathered writings that affirm Kenyon's place as one of America's most important recent poets. "That there will be no more writing by Jane Kenyon," Peseroff writes in her Introduction, "is one of the terrible losses that might have been otherwise."

Contributors include: Wendell Berry, Robert Bly, Hayden Carruth, Michael Dirda, Donald Hall, Robert Hass, Marie Howe, Galway Kinnell, Peter Kramer, Maxine Kumin, Alice Mattison, Molly Peacock, Robert Pinsky, Jean Valentine, and many others.

Author: Joyce Peseroff
ISBN-10: 1555974295
ISBN-13: 9781555974299
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2005
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 8.76h x 6.12w x 0.85d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 11/20/2005 pg. 20
Library Journal 09/05/2005