Wendell Berry, "Sweetness Preserved"
"... It is (Kenyon's) perfection of tone...makes her poems able to accommodate sudden declarations of spiritual knowledge or religious faith..."
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In April of 1998 the First Jane Kenyon Conference brought together Donald Hall, Wendell Berry, Galway Kinnell, Alice Mattison, Gregory Orr, and Joyce Peseroff along with a number of scholars, teachers, students, and admirers of Jane Kenyon's poetry. What was said about Jane Kenyon and about her poetry was informed and informative, and often very moving. This volume collects poems and remarks about her and her work by Hall, Berry, Kinnell, Mattison, Orr, and Peseroff, as well as essays by a dozen other conference participants.
Bright Unequivocal Eye: Poems, Papers, and Remembrances from the First Jane Kenyon Conference SYNOPSIS
The conference was held in April 1998, bringing together Donald Hall, Wendell Berry, Galway Kinnell, Alice Mattison, Gregory Orr, and Joyce Peseroff along with a number of scholars, teachers, students, and admirers of Jane Kenyon's poetry. This volume collects remarks and essays by the above notables and others, giving insight into the life and work of a much loved poet who died in 1995 at the age of 47. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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