What Matters: Poems - Hardcover

Kenny, Adele

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1566490790 ISBN 13: 9781566490795

Publisher: Welcome Rain Publishers, 2011

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From the Back Cover:

These poems are eloquent, candid, straightforward and genuine. (Robert Pinsky, U.S. Poet Laureate 1997-2000)

In Adele Kenny's finely wrought meditations on grief and loss, she never forgets that she's a maker of poems; in other words, that the poem in its entirety is more important than any one of its utterances, phrasings, or laments. What Mattersstraddles two of the exigencies of the human condition: diminishment and endurance. It abounds with poems that skillfully earn their sentiments. (Stephen Dunn, Pulitzer Prize in Poetry)

These are poems that come to (poetic) grips with the issues of grief, fear, and death ... focused in a new and strong way. (Gerald Stern, Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, National Book Award Recipient)

From the Inside Flap:

We're all survivors of one thing or another, and these meticulously crafted poems by Adele Kenny tell us that we're not alone. Intimate rather than private, the poems in What Matters are characterized by startling imagery, rich metaphor, and a compelling sense of immediacy. The book begins with meditations on the past and what has been lost (as Shakespeare wrote, "...what's past is prologue"). Section two moves through the diagnosis and treatment of a life-threatening illness, and section three demonstrates how loss, grief, and illness can teach us how to live. Intensely lyrical and sometimes edgy, these poems are about the human spirit's transcendent nature - the immanent "something more."  

About this edition

• Publisher: Welcome Rain Publishers
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1566490790
• ISBN 13: 9781566490795
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 64