Cast Of Consciousness, Vol. 24 Book

The life Jane Kenyon, and specifically her darkness of depression, are the focus of Timmerman's biography and literary analysis. The author explores the various techniques the poet used to express her spirituality and her love for the farm on which she and Donald Hall ( a former US Poet Laureate) lived in New Hampshire. Kenyon lived there from 1975 until her death from leukemia in 1995. Copious footnotes permitted this reader to make a list of Kenyon's volumes for further exploration. Indeed, this book is much like taking a trip to new territory with an expert guide, and then returning to the same spot later on one's own. The closing chapter focuses upon Hall's struggle to live without her and is surprisingly powerful.