SOURCE: Cookson, Sandra. Review of Otherwise: New and Selected Poems by Jane Kenyon. World Literature Today 71, no. 2 (spring 1997): 390-91.
In the following review, Cookson purports that the genius of the simple poems in Otherwise: New and Selected Poems is Kenyon's spark of imagination and her ability to convey the inspiration of their creation with skillfully chosen words.
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