Simply lasting : writers on Jane Kenyon / edited by Joyce Peseroff.

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Other Authors: Peseroff, Joyce (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Saint Paul, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2005]
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.