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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 8112386
• Group: Halls of Guilford - DNA Family 110
• Obituary: 27 Apr 1995, New York, New York County, New York; New York Times

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From FindaGrave:

Noted Poet. She was the wife of Donald Hall. She translated "Twenty Poems of Anna Akhmatova," and compiled four volumes of her poetry during her lifetime in "From Room to Room," "The Boat of Quiet Hours," "Let Evening Come," and "Constance."

Bio by: Bona Rae Villarta

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8112386

Group:
Descendants of William Hall and Esther of Guilford, Connecticut

Obituary:
Jane Kenyon, 47, A Poet Laureate
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Jane Kenyon, New Hampshire's poet laureate, died on Saturday at her home in Wilmot. She was 47.

The cause was leukemia, said her husband, the poet Donald Hall.

For 20 years Ms. Kenyon lived and worked in the farmhouse she shared with her husband, who had been her poetry teacher at the University of Michigan.

Ms. Kenyon wrote of domesticity and the rhythms of rural life. She was an inward-looking poet of intense emotion, probing her own manic-depressive suffering and the suffering of others, including that of her husband, whose cancer was diagnosed six years ago.

Her published works include "The Boat of Quiet Hours" (1987) and "Let Evening Come" (1991). In a review of "The Boat of Quiet Hours" in The New York Times, Carol Muske wrote: "These poems surprise beauty at every turn and capture truth at its familiar New England slant." A portion of "Let Evening Come" was set to music by William Bolcom as a memorial to the soprano Tatiana Troyanos, who died in 1993.

Ms. Kenyon's poems also appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic, Poetry and many other publications. A new collection is to be published in the fall.

In addition to her husband, she is survived by a brother, Reuel; a stepdaughter, Philippa Smith of Concord, N.H.; a stepson, Andrew Hall, of Belmont, Mass., and five stepgrandchildren.

Jane married Donald Andrew Hall, Jr. in Apr 1972. Donald (son of Donald Andrew Hall, Sr. and Lucy Martha Wells) was born on 20 Sep 1928 in New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut; died on 23 Jun 2018 in Wilmot, Merrimack County, New Hampshire; was buried on 30 Jun 2018 in Proctor Cemetery, Andover, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]