Reviews for Letters to Jane

The average rating for Letters to Jane based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-12-09 00:00:00 Salvatore Panebianco A wonderful little book. Both poets now gone, but this collects Carruth's letters to Kenyon as she was dying, and they both knew that was the case. Is this a good example of the last generation of writers to write actual letters that are given substance by the time it takes them to move through the post? I conclude an essay/review I did on Kenyon with this book. You can link to it here:

Review # 2 was written on 2009-10-07 00:00:00 Garry Bollinger This slim book collects letters that Carruth wrote to Jane Kenyon in her last year of life. In the first letter, Carruth reports that he's heard of Jane's illness, and says to her, "About all I can do . . . is reassure you of our love." These are, then, letters of love, letters of assurance in the face of death. They are full of tender observations, brief rants, old stories, and the details of life lived in attentiveness.