Simply lasting: writers on Jane Kenyon

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. .