Which are very good …

… Exile as Resettlement: A Review of The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon | Front Porch Republic. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Kenyon does not try to answer the problem of suffering, she merely sits with it, waiting for communion. But this poem is a prayer. It written from a place of faith-in-despair, not no faith. It is not even doubt, really. She understands Barth’s insight that the “hiddenness of God necessarily reminds us of our human limitations. We do not believe out of our personal reason and power. Anyone who really believes knows that.” Jane Kenyon really believed.