Reviews of Otherwise

“One may also read these precise and limpid works simply for the beauty of their expression. . . In a just world, Otherwise--beautifully designed by Graywolf--would become a bestseller.” —The Washington Post

“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

“Kenyon’s evenness of tone—her ability to mirror in the simplest language all that she sees—is the kind of smooth, dark ice that conceals wildly rushing waters.” —The New Yorker

‘We have lost Kenyon, but ‘God does not leave us/ comfortless, so let evening come’; Otherwise is proof of that.” —The Nation