SOURCE: Merritt, Constance. Review of Otherwise: New and Selected Poems by Jane Kenyon. Prairie Schooner 72, no. 1 (spring 1998): 171-76.
In the following excerpt, Merritt analyzes the poems collected in Otherwise: New and Selected Poems and notes Kenyon's preoccupation with death and dying. However, Merritt asserts, this morbidity is tempered by Kenyon's reverence for the common, everyday realities that make up human existence.
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