Poetic Obituaries: One of Mr. [Hayden] Carruth's final books,

"Letters to Jane" (2004), was a volume of his correspondence with poet Jane Kenyon, who died of cancer in 1995 at 47.

"He wrote her a letter every week," Kenyon's husband, poet Donald Hall, said yesterday. "He did not talk to her about her disease. He wrote looking out his window at a bird, at a leaf falling. They were absolutely marvelous."

"Silence"

Sometimes we don't say anything. Sometimes

from The Washington Post: Hayden Carruth, 87; Poems Reflected Struggles of Life
also The Post-Standard: Hayden Carruth Dies
also Los Angeles Times: Hayden Carruth dies at 87; poet wrote eloquently of farmers' lives even as he battled emotional ills

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