Reviews for From Room to Room

The average rating for From Room to Room based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-06-24 00:00:00 Jon Patti Some samples: The First Eight Days of the Beard by Jane Kenyon 1. A page of exclamation points. 2. A class of cadets at attention. 3. A school of eels. 4. Standing commuters. 5. A bed on nails for the swami. 6. Flagpoles of unknown countries. 7. Centipedes resting on their laurels. 8. The toenails of the face. The Socks by Jane Kenyon While you were away I matched your socks and rolled them into balls. Then I filled your drawer with tight dark fists. The Shirt by Jane Kenyon The shirt touches his neck and smoothes over his back. It slides down his sides. It even goes down below his belt-- down into his pants. Lucky shirt.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-10-06 00:00:00 Harley Crow Rereading Kenyon's From Room to Room for the first time in almost 30 years reminded me not only of how good a poet she was, but how much I miss the Deep Image lyricism of the seventies--poems who's leaps weren't clever or intellectualized but imagistic and jarring for how they reverberated like a struck bell. The book ends with several translations of Ahkmatova, that are lovely as anything in the rest of the collection.