Reviews of Simply Lasting

“Every page of Jane Kenyon’s 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

“Peseroff gathers personal and critical essays, letters, poems, and memoirs that piercingly celebrate Kenyon’s spirit and charm.” —Ploughshares

“Each of the dozens of contributors to this significant work either explores a personal relationship with Kenyon or describes the lasting impact of her work.” —The Sanford Herald (NC)

“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