Simply lasting : writers on Jane Kenyon / edited by Joyce Peseroff.
2005
PS3561.E554 Z86 2005
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Title
Simply lasting : writers on Jane Kenyon / edited by Joyce Peseroff.
ISBN
1555974295 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781555974299 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781555974299 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Imprint
Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, [2005]
Description
xvi, 278 p. ; 23 cm.
Exhibited
2006 Showcase
Call Number
PS3561.E554 Z86 2005
Summary
"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 grace. 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"--BOOK JACKET.
Review
"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 grace. 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"--BOOK JACKET.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction
Personal essays, letters, poems, and one interview: "Let it grow in the dark like a mushroom" : writing with Jane Kenyon / Alice Mattison. Seven letters to Alice Mattison / Jane Kenyon. From "Our lady of sorrows" / Gregory Orr. "How could she not" / Galway Kinnell. "Dinner at Jane and Don's" / Maxine Kumin. "Sweetness preserved" / Wendell Berry. "Jane Kenyon 1947-1995" ; "Elegy for Jane Kenyon" / Jean Valentine. "The Beacon" / Caroline Finkelstein. "A Few lines about Jane" ; "Yellow dot" / Robert Bly. "Remembering Jane Kenyon" / Liam Rector. "Ghost in the house" / Donald Hall. "Still present" ; "A conversation with Jane" / Mike Pride
Critical essays: "Jane Kenyon" / Laban Hill. From "Poet at work" / John H. Timmerman. "Home alone : self and relation in part 1 of 'The boat of quiet hours'" / Steven Cramer. "Government of two" / Wesley McNair. From "Comfort poem" / Molly Peacock. "Discerning cherishment in Jan Kenyon's poetry : a psychoanalytic approach" / Judith Harris. "Jane Kenyon's 'Manners toward God' : gratitude and the 'anti-urge'" / Paul Breslin. "Faith that blessed through sorrow : meditations on Jane Kenyon's poetry" / Lynn Strongin
Shorter pieces and reviews: From "Poets on the fringe" / Hayden Carruth. From "Shape-changing in contemporary poetry" / John Unterecker. "Boat of quiet hours" / Carol Muske. From "Plural perspectives, heightened perceptions" / Alfred Corn. From "Tidings of comfort and dread : poetry and the dark beauty of Christmas" / Robert Pinsky. "Jane Kenyon's Constance" / Marie Howe. "Notes from the other side" / Lucia Perillo. "Unequivocal eye" / Peter D. Kramer. "Constance" / David Barber. "Simply lasting" / Deborah Garrison. From "Poet's choice" / Robert Hass. From "Gift of being simple" / Michael Dirda. "Jane Kenyon, Otherwise" / Constance Merritt. From "Intimations of mortality" / Haines Sprunt Tate. .
Personal essays, letters, poems, and one interview: "Let it grow in the dark like a mushroom" : writing with Jane Kenyon / Alice Mattison. Seven letters to Alice Mattison / Jane Kenyon. From "Our lady of sorrows" / Gregory Orr. "How could she not" / Galway Kinnell. "Dinner at Jane and Don's" / Maxine Kumin. "Sweetness preserved" / Wendell Berry. "Jane Kenyon 1947-1995" ; "Elegy for Jane Kenyon" / Jean Valentine. "The Beacon" / Caroline Finkelstein. "A Few lines about Jane" ; "Yellow dot" / Robert Bly. "Remembering Jane Kenyon" / Liam Rector. "Ghost in the house" / Donald Hall. "Still present" ; "A conversation with Jane" / Mike Pride
Critical essays: "Jane Kenyon" / Laban Hill. From "Poet at work" / John H. Timmerman. "Home alone : self and relation in part 1 of 'The boat of quiet hours'" / Steven Cramer. "Government of two" / Wesley McNair. From "Comfort poem" / Molly Peacock. "Discerning cherishment in Jan Kenyon's poetry : a psychoanalytic approach" / Judith Harris. "Jane Kenyon's 'Manners toward God' : gratitude and the 'anti-urge'" / Paul Breslin. "Faith that blessed through sorrow : meditations on Jane Kenyon's poetry" / Lynn Strongin
Shorter pieces and reviews: From "Poets on the fringe" / Hayden Carruth. From "Shape-changing in contemporary poetry" / John Unterecker. "Boat of quiet hours" / Carol Muske. From "Plural perspectives, heightened perceptions" / Alfred Corn. From "Tidings of comfort and dread : poetry and the dark beauty of Christmas" / Robert Pinsky. "Jane Kenyon's Constance" / Marie Howe. "Notes from the other side" / Lucia Perillo. "Unequivocal eye" / Peter D. Kramer. "Constance" / David Barber. "Simply lasting" / Deborah Garrison. From "Poet's choice" / Robert Hass. From "Gift of being simple" / Michael Dirda. "Jane Kenyon, Otherwise" / Constance Merritt. From "Intimations of mortality" / Haines Sprunt Tate. .
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