Collected Poems
Kenyon spent her life in rural New Hampshire attending to weather, animals, marriage and depression, and died at forty-seven. Her plainness is a discipline, not a limit.
The complete poems of a writer who spent her life in rural New Hampshire attending to weather, animals, marriage, and the depression that shadowed her. Kenyon died at forty-seven; the plainness of her language is a discipline rather than a limitation, and the late poems about illness are among the clearest in American verse.
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Maria Popova
Poet Jane Kenyon (May 23, 1947–April 22, 1995) offers a splendid consolation for signing it in her poem “Things,” found in her altogether soul-slaking Collected Poems (public library).
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