Simply Lasting: Writers on Jane Kenyon

AN INVALUABLE COMPANION TO THE POETRY OF ONE OF AMERICA’S GREATEST CONTEMPORARY POETS Essays, memoir and criticism devoted to the indispensable Jane Kenyon, including contribution from her husband Donald Hall In personal and critical essays, letters, poems and reviews by a cross-section of writers, 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 Joyce Peseroff has gathered together 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 observes in her introduction, is one of the terrible losses that might have been otherwise.