Death and Transfiguration

by Cherry, Kelly

• ISBN13: 9780807122129
• ISBN10: 0807122122
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-11-01
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr

Summary

In this, her latest, deeply moving collection, Kelly Cherry confronts the basic questions of love and death, faith and suffering. From her search for "a new poetry" - one that can face up to the worst barbarities of the twentieth century - Cherry wrests a passionate, authoritative, powerful vision that is itself transfiguring.

Author Biography

Kelly Cherry is the Evjue-Bascom Professor in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Table of Contents

Imagining the Past	p. 3
My Mother's Swans	p. 5
My Mother's Stroke	p. 6
Wind Chimes in the Deep Blue Upside-Down Heaven	p. 7
The Letter	p. 8
Emphysema	p. 9
Miracle and Mystery	p. 10
Epithalamium	p. 11
Anniversary	p. 12
Alzheimer's	p. 13
Prayer for My Father: In Memoriam	p. 14
Bubbling	p. 15
Petition on Behalf of My Parents (Both of Whom Had Emphysema)	p. 17
How We Are Taken	p. 18
Quartet Without Beginning or End	p. 19
Falling	p. 20
Bedroom with Yellow Lamp and Chrysanthemums	p. 21
From Venice: Letter to an Ex-Husband	p. 22
On Looking at an Artwork by My Ex-Husband, After His Death	p. 23
The Fight	p. 24
As If a Star	p. 25
First Marriage	p. 26
On Fire and Living on Air	p. 27
Regrets	p. 28
Hide-and-Seek	p. 29
The Almost-Baby	p. 30
The Dead Vole	p. 31
Two Lieder for Lost Children	p. 32
Trip to Las Vegas	p. 33
What You Do Now	p. 34
At a Resort by the Black Sea	p. 35
Kissing in the Silver Summer House Above the Black Sea	p. 36
Yalta Rain	p. 37
Remembering	p. 38
I Went to Find You	p. 39
Dove of Light	p. 40
Livadiya Palace, Site of the Yalta Conference	p. 41
A Diminishing Chord Modulating into Nihilism	p. 42
The Revelation at Hand	p. 44
Requiem	p. 47
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