{"product_id":"jane-kenyon-9780252045387","title":"Jane Kenyon","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDemystifying the “Poet Laureate of Depression”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e Pleasure-loving, sarcastic, stubborn, determined, erotic, deeply sad--Jane Kenyon’s complexity and contradictions found expression in luminous poems that continue to attract a passionate following. Dana Greene draws on a wealth of personal correspondence and other newly available materials to delve into the origins, achievement, and legacy of Kenyon’s poetry and separate the artist’s life story from that of her husband, the award-winning poet Donald Hall. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Impacted by relatives’ depression during her isolated childhood, Kenyon found poetry at college, where writers like Robert Bly encouraged her development. Her graduate school marriage to the middle-aged Hall and subsequent move to New Hampshire had an enormous impact on her life, moods, and creativity. Immersed in poetry, Kenyon wrote about women’s lives, nature, death, mystical experiences, and melancholy--becoming, in her own words\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Dana Greene’s compulsively readable biography of Jane Kenyon tells the poignant story of the poet’s life, her development and career as a writer, and her long marriage to and partnership with poet Donald Hall. Overshadowed for many years, in life and after her death, by her more famous husband, Kenyon emerges in Greene’s narrative as a fiercely independent and gifted artist in her own right. Greene takes pains to illuminate the complex dynamics of their relationship and to showcase the quiet power and beauty of Jane Kenyon’s work, liberating Kenyon from the prevailing \u003ci\u003emythos\u003c\/i\u003e that casts her as a lesser poet and enabling readers to see her anew. \u003ci\u003eJane Kenyon\u003c\/i\u003e is a triumph.”--Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, author of \u003ci\u003eFlannery O’Connor: Fiction Fired by Faith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A subtle, sensitive portrait of a 'complex, talented, and ambitious' woman. \" --\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Word of Gratitude \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Prologue \u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Turning Inward \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Enlivened by Poetry \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Donald Hall, “Rockstar” \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Marriage by Default \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e House of the Ancestors \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Community of Wilmot \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Muses \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Finding Her Way \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e A Double Solitude \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Streaming Light and Death \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Boat of Quiet Hours \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Waiting \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e A Moment in Middle Age \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Coming Evening \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Widening Vision \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Poet Laureate of Depression \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Poetry Matters \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Busiest Year \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Deciding to Live \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Annus Horribilis \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e “Please Don’t Die” \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Falling into Light \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Aftermath \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acclaim \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Advocate for the Inner Life \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e Note on Sources \u003cp\u003e Notes \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Bibliography \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400459231575,"sku":"9780252045387","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252045387.jpg?v=1730470731","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/jane-kenyon-9780252045387","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}