Dan Rattelle is an MFA student at the University of St Andrews. His poems and reviews have recently been published or are forthcoming in Modern Age, FORMA, Alabama Literary Review, and First Things. He lives in Massachusetts.
Jane Kenyon was foremost a poet of place. Not of the State of New Hampshire, though she was its Poet Laureate, but of the much smaller and less abstract corner of it in and around Eagle Pond.
Berry wrote in one of his letters to Merton that “you are one of the few whose awareness of what I’m doing here would be of value to me.” He is acknowledging that he and Merton lead lives of similar mission, lives shaped by work and silence.
