I. The Family; The Family; Imagining the Past; Ithaca; My Mother's Swans; The Grecian Grace of a White Egret; Epithalamium; Anniversary; Alzheimer's; Prayer for My Father: In Memoriam; Miracle and Mystery; How We Are Taken; Falling; II. First Marriage; The Bride of Quietness; My Marriage; From Venice: Letter to an Ex-Husband; First Marriage; Fission; On Looking at an Artwork by My Ex-Husband, after His Death; Wishing I Could Bring You Back and See Things More Clearly ThisTime Around; III. For a Composer; At Night Your Mouth; The Lonely Music; From "Songs for a Soviet Composer"
A Diminishing Chord Modulating into NihilismNow the Night; In the End; Requiem; VI. Adult Education; Reading, Dreaming, Hiding; Late Afternoon at the Arboretum; An Other Woman; The Almost-Baby; Rising Venus; Adult Ed. 101: Basic Home Repair for Single Women; Woman Living Alone; Love; Work; My House; Grace; To a Young Woman; VII. Questions and Answers; The Same Rose; The Rose; Sunrise; Study for an Annunciation; Virgin and Child; Galilee; The Radical; Golgotha; Natural Theology; How to Wait; The Horse at Dusk; The Heart of the World; On Looking at a Yellow Wagon; Questions and Answers
And ThenVIII. Virginia; Byrd's Survey of the Boundary: An Abridgment; God in the South; God's Picnic (Blue Ridge); The Garden; In the Field; Wild Dogwood; Blue Jay; The Shape of the Air; The Heat Down South (Richmond, 1955); A Farm in Virginia near the North Carolina Boundary; Joy; Virginia Reel; NOTES; Acknowledgments
Berlin: An EpithalamionThe Raiment We Put On; Waiting for the End of Time; Looking Back; Memory; IV. Lady Macbeth on the Psych Ward; Man on the Hall; Nobody's Fool; Lady Macbeth on the Psych Ward; She Goes to War; The Pines without Peer; Dora; Paranoia; Catching Hell; Bat Mother; V. Life in the Twentieth Century; Family Life in the Twentieth Century; The Promise; History; A Scientific Expedition in Siberia, 1913; Forecast; Lt. Col. Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova; Death Comes to Those Who Know It; Report from an Unnamed City; At a Russian Writers' Colony
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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, and aesthetic questions, and, most powerfully, to love and loss. She shows us in sometimes searing poems where the hazards lie, and in transcendent ver.
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