Reviews of Collected Poems by Jane Kenyon

“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 Magazine

“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

“A treasure.” —The Boston Globe

“[Kenyon’s] memorable poems trace the channels of extraordinary spiritual trials and the measured redemptions of an extraordinary imagination.” —Robert Pinsky, Washington Post Book World

“[Jane Kenyon] remains a celebrated poet whose work and memory are being honored.” —Los Angeles Times

“The poems of Jane Kenyon are a heart-stopping chronicle of her material being and a lush interior world, a life visited by joy and sorrow in equal measure. And within the quiet walls of Jane Kenyon: Collected Poems, a silenced voice speaks to a new generation of readers.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune

“Jane Kenyon wrote many short poems that fill the imagination like an entire novel.” —Providence Journal

“Readers are again privileged to encounter the works of one who ranks high among outstanding 20th-century poets.” —The Sanford Herald (NC)

“A twentieth-century’s lifetime of exploration, growth, development, contemplation and insight are remembered amid the gentle pages of this impressive life’s work.” —Midwest Book Review

"Softly luminous, luminously patient, patiently devoted to the mundane . . . is the serenity of Kenyon's poems." —Pleiades

"[The poems'] strength and beauty are found precisely in their honest grappling with despair and faith, and in the sense that struggle between the two are perilously close." —The Christian Century

"What a treasure it is." —Shelf Awareness