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Poet JANE KENYON, who died Saturday of leukemia

2: Poet JANE KENYON, who died Saturday of leukemia. She and her husband, poet DONALD HALL, had both been struggling with cancer for years. Many of their works were inspired by their battles with the disease. Their last book of poems, entitled Constance, is about HALL's surgery and recovery. KENYON's other books are Boat of Quiet Hours and Let Evening Come. A new collection of her poems, called Otherwise is due out in 1996. (Greywolf

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