Estate of Jane Kenyon

“Amidst all of Jane Kenyon’s unyielding and absolute clarity . . . it’s easy to forget she was a visionary too, a mystic. . . . These poems seem to orbit a nucleus of ecstatic awareness, of self-surrender. . . . The systems Kenyon creates here feel open, sweeping, and endless, like water bending over a horizon.’”—Kaveh Akbar

“The poems of Jane Kenyon are lodestars. I can think of no better way to navigate life than to keep her work close, as I have always done. It’s thrilling to now have this great parting gift from Donald Hall—his loving, intimate, discerning selection of the best of her poems.”—Dani Shapiro

“The poems themselves—her six books gathered in one new volume, Collected Poems—are the best argument for her place in history.”—The New York Times Book Review

“Readers couldn’t choose a more trustworthy companion to the life of feeling than the poetry of Jane Kenyon, now collected in a single, beautiful volume…Essential reading…Every page of Jane Kenyon’s [Collected Poems] offers a pleasure: clarity, gentle humor, calm and acute observation, and a movingly rendered struggle to understand the life she sees before her.”—Mark Doty, O, The Oprah Magazine

"Her words, with their quiet, rapt force, their pensiveness and wit, come to us from natural speech, from the Bible and hymns, from which she derived the singular psalmlike music that is hers alone."—The New York Times Book Review

"As carefully culled and tended as the New England flower gardens that Kenyon, a poet who died of leukemia in 1995, wrote about with such bone-aching clarity, this collection of sundry, posthumous prose and poetry illuminates a little-known corner of her oeuvre. ... The woman who comes to life in these pages is witty, guileless, humble and heartbreakingly intelligent. One is left wanting more, as if continuing the interviews could restore this vibrant person to life. ... It is quite clear why the poet felt such kinship for Akhmatova, for she, too, has achieved a "beautiful clarity." -- Publishers Weekly