"Let it grow in the dark like a mushroom": Writing with Jane Kenyon

From: Michigan Quarterly Review | Date: January 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

In a fireproof box in my study are letters the poet Jane Kenyon wrote me between the time we met in 1979 and her death, at the age of forty-seven, in 1995. 1 wrote to Jane first thing every Monday morning, when I could hardly bear being a writer. Jane wrote less often, but often enough. I look at a letter of hers from May 28, 1985. She was trying to place her second book of poems, The Boat of Quiet Hours, and waiting for her newly published book of translations from Akhmatova to arrive. For two and a half years she and Joyce Peseroff and I had been meeting several times a year to work on ...

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