What clever friends the selected letters of Jane Kenyon and Alice Mattison edited by Chad Wriglesworth

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wriglesworth, Chad, editor.

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kenyon, Jane--Correspondence.

Kenyon, Jane.

Mattison, Alice--Correspondence.

Mattison, Alice.

Women authors.

Women poets.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press [2026]

Summary:

What Clever Friends, edited by Chad Wriglesworth, is a selection of engaging, frank letters between poet Jane Kenyon and fiction writer Alice Mattison. Ranging from their first meeting in 1979 to Kenyon's death in 1995, this fifteen-year conversation between close friends reveals their experiences pursuing writing while living out the responsibilities of ordinary life. Writing to each other often, they help each other, confide in each other, and argue through the strains of rejection and acceptance, good reviews and bad, periods in which writing comes easily or when it does not. Over time, both writers emerged from obscurity to gain award-winning recognition as prominent voices in their respective genres. Witty, tender, and aware; tempestuous and lyrical, these letters trace the evolution of a deep and largely unknown friendship that situates Kenyon's work within a collaborative environment of other poets and novelists who were committed to the flourishing of contemporary women's writing. With more than 500 edited and annotated letters, a retrospective foreword written by Alice Mattison, and a scholarly introduction written by Chad Wriglesworth, What Clever Friends conveys a compelling story that will interest readers and writers

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description based on information from the publisher

ISBN:

9780472222636

0472222635

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access