Domestic life, depression and rural New Hampshire are rendered with unusual precision in Jane Kenyon’s poetry. Collections such as Constance and Otherwise: New & Selected Poems include poems where washing, walking a dog, gardens or weather become ways of approaching grief and attention without large rhetorical gestures. Let Evening Come is among her best-known poems, using repeated permission to let ordinary things move towards darkness and rest. Kenyon also translated poetry by Anna Akhmatova, bringing another restrained lyric voice into her work as a reader and translator. Her poems are clear, spare and emotionally direct. The most useful shelf associations are contemporary American poetry, nature writing, illness and depression poetry, and reflective domestic lyric. Read more Less
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