Death and Transfiguration: Poems (Paperback)

by Kelly Cherry (Author)

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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® --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Description
In 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", 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 grasps her anguish to see how much she can stand .

Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Louisiana State University Press (November 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0807122122
• ISBN-13: 978-0807122129
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #376,545 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars KELLY CHERRY MAPS THE HUMAN HEART., December 13, 1997

By	Meg Rothstein "Meg Rothstein" (Madison, WI United States) - See all my reviews

Kelly Cherry has always brought poetry alive for me. In her way of writing, Cherry cuts to the core of human understanding in as clear a way as possible. Cherry's newest collection, Death and Transfiguration: Poems, is no exception. Breath taking, painful and searching, the collection is an exploration of the darker moments in human experience, rendered in sensitive, rich, and refreshing thought, passion, and language. These poems are urgent, crucial contributions to our understanding of such moments, and our understanding of the power of poetry. Those readers familiar with Cherry's poetry know she writes through those subjects considered not conquerable (death, love, God). Yet, where many poets fail under the intellectual and emotional weight of such subjects, Cherry masters each with skillful intent. Diction is sharply crafted, metaphors are clear and beautifully created, and language and meter choice make Cherry's poetry sing like the strongest and saddest of songs.