Introduction: Kay Boyle in Contexts

the attempts of life and the attempts of art the claims of each on the otherendlessly separating AM endlessly separatingKay Boyle, “Poems for a Painter” (1961) Kay Boyle, photographed by George Platt Lynes, 1941 ©The Kay Boyle Papers, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Who was Kay Boyle? Perhaps paradoxically, the aim of this E-rea issue is not to answer this question. Indeed, it is quite impossible to grasp Boyle’s long, prolific career and tumultuous life in a single coherent po..