Death and Transfiguration: Poems - Softcover

Cherry, Kelly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807122122 ISBN 13: 9780807122129

Publisher: LSU Press, 1997

Synopsis

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.

Death and Transfiguration focuses on the wisdom one gains from pain rather than on the pain itself. Cherry, betraying no fear, grasps her anguish to see how much she can stand.

Dedication, tenacity, and spiritual poise are needed to make precise observations of this kind in the most trying times. In Death and Transfiguration, Cherry demonstrates how such displacements of the mind carry with them their own analeptic.

“Requiem,” the collection’s long closing poem, gathers all of these deaths in a single embrace. This spectacular piece, emotionally akin to Anna Akhmatova’s poem of the same title but as closely and brilliantly reasoned as philosophy, transforms everything that has gone before, creating a strong, unified work.

About this title

About the Author:

Kelly Cherry, Evjue-Bascom Professor in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, is the author of four previous books of poetry, including God’s Loud Hand; five novels; a collection of essays; and an autobiographical narrative, The Exiled Heart.

Review:

The Almost-baby
Alzheimer's
Anniversary
As If A Star
At A Resort By The Black Sea
Bedroom With Yellow Lamp And Chrysanthemums
Bubbling
The Dead Vole
A Diminishing Chord Modulating Into Nihilism
Dove Of Light
Emphysema
Epithalamium
Falling
The Fight
First Marriage
From Venice: Letter To An Ex-husband
Hide-and-seek
How We Are Taken
I Went To Find You
Imagining The Past
Kissing In The Silver Summer House Above The Black Sea
The Letter
Livadiya Palace, Site Of The Yalta Conference
Miracle And Mystery
My Mother's Stroke
My Mother's Swans
On Fire And Living On Air
On Looking At An Artwork By My Ex-husband, After His Death
Petition On Behalf Of My Parents (both Of Whom Had Emphysema)
Prayer For My Father: In Memoriam
Quartet Without Beginning Or End
Regrets: Older Woman
Regrets: Young Woman
Remembering
Requiem: One: Absolute Arguments
Requiem: Two: Beauty Born Out Of Its Own Despair
The Revelation At Hand
Trip To Las Vegas
Two Lieder For Lost Children I
Two Lieder For Lost Children Ii
What You Do Now
Wind Chimes In The Deep Blue Uside-down Heaven
Yalta Rain
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: LSU Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0807122122
• ISBN 13: 9780807122129
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64