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Takes on the large issues of war and espionage, ethics and theology, identity and family. The author's travels to Russia began in 1965, where she meta Latvian and the two tried to marry but authorities refused to allow it. In this book, reference to earlier wars, (e.g. Vietnam, Syria) leads to Bonhoeffer's battle with the Nazis on behalf of his church. The poet's responses to Bonhoeffer's statement allow a dialog to form from different points ...

In Observing the Invisible, Kelly Cherry crafts poems that explore the ever-evolving realm of modern physics, confronting the invisibilities and mysteries of the material world. She leverages challenging ideas into a space of contemplative wonder as the book moves from external observation into an increasingly inward space of personal reflection and expression. Throughout, Observing the Invisible remains deliberate in its concentration on what...

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Kelly Cherry takes on what few contemporary poets are willing to: the ways and hows of human existence, in both personal and historical terms. Tonally and technically, she has a wide range, being capable of writing touchingly intimate love poems on the one hand and treating natural objects with scientific precision on the other. The common denominator is the sensibility of a poet for whom all human perceptions, whether of inner experience or e...

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According to Kelly Cherry, Temporium is something like, but not altogether like, a short-story collection, because not all of these pieces are stories. Nor is this a collection of prose poetry, though one or two entries may come close to that. At least a few of them are more like mini-essays, though perhaps they are not essays, either. What they are-these bits and pieces-is moments of time and I have arranged them more or less chronologically....

In this collection, her tenth work of fiction, Kelly Cherry delivers twelve stories about women who are struggling to find their way through not only the everyday workings of life, but also through the maze of self. From a young woman's piano lesson that takes a terrible turn, to an elderly woman's last breath, Twelve Women in a Country Called America takes readers on a journey sometimes dark, sometimes funny, and always enlightening.

Winner of the 2013 L. E. Phillabaum Poetry Award In her ninth collection of poetry, Kelly Cherry explores the domain of language. Clear and accessible, the poems in The Life and Death of Poetry examine the intricacies and limitations of communication and its ability to help us transcend our world and lives. The poet begins with silence and animal sound before taking on literature, public discourse, and the particular art of poetry. The s...

In a series of humorous observations, this work explores the art of writing, its relationship to place and its importance in our lives. The author also reflects on being a women writer.

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Lyrical beauty and power, imposing metaphor, and thought both deep and precise are hallmarks of Kelly Cherry's poetry, on view in Hazard and Prospect: New and Selected Poems. With a dazzling mastery and range of tone, technique, form, and ideas, Cherry presents a lifetime of powerful writing that coheres into a single, seamless work. In it she responds to the natural world, to philosophical dilemmas, to spiritual longing, to political, ethical...

Lyrical beauty and power, imposing metaphor, and thought both deep and precise are hallmarks of Kelly Cherry's poetry, on view in Hazard and Prospect: New and Selected Poems. With a dazzling mastery and range of tone, technique, form, and ideas, Cherry presents a lifetime of powerful writing that coheres into a single, seamless work. In it she responds to the natural world, to philosophical dilemmas, to spiritual longing, to political, ethical...

Life is a kind of dream . So is the art we make in response to life. In A Kind of Dream, five generations of an artistic family explore the ups and downs of life, discovering that for an artist even failure is success, because the work matters more than the self. Fame, death, rash self-destruction, laughter, the excitement of making good art, love, marriage, being a mother, being a father, the appreciation of beauty, and always life—life itsel...

Kelly Cherry has long been a writer whose work has remained vital and, due to her diligence, fresh. In this Reader, she collects a body of work, much of it no longer in print, and allows us to remap and re-explore where her writing has come from, where it has gone, and where it is bound yet to go, it reacquaints long-time fans and invites new readers to discover the importance of her work.

Kelly Cherry's tenth work of fiction delivers twelve compelling stories about women of the American South. These are women struggling to find their way through the everyday workings of life while also navigating the maze of self. From a young woman's nightmare piano lesson to an elderly woman's luminous last breath, Twelve Women in a Country Called America takes readers on a journey sometimes dark, sometimes funny, and always enlightening.

An outstanding collection of poetry about inventions and inventors, real and imagined, assembled by editor and poet, Bernadette Geyer, author of The Scabbard of Her Throat and a chapbook, What Remains. "I was awed by the seemingly endless number of ways that poets approached the subject. Naturally, there are poems about real inventions-from clocks to pantyhose to chemotherapy drugs-as well as poems that conjure fantastical inventions-such as a...

Robert Oppenheimer was a complex human being. No biography yet written comes even close to this elegant skein of poems in capturing his life and character."--Richard Rhodes, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb Quartet for J. Robert Oppenheimer records in poetry the life and times of one of America's best-known scientists, the father of the atomic bomb who later lobbied for containment of nuclear weaponry. In brie...

Kelly Cherry, who studied philosophy in graduate school at the University of Virginia, has never lost her deep love of the subject, The Retreats of Thought takes the reader through the philosophical domain. What do we really know of our world? Why is there anything at all? What is time? What is a person? What is mind? What are goodness and beauty? What does the artist seek? These and other problems are shrewdly examined in Cherrys passionate, ...