Results for "Cherry, Kelly"

If religious poetry may be thought of as a great river fed, in the English language, by two main streams--the devotional tradition, leading in recent times to Anne Sexton and John Berryman, and the contrastingly philosophical tradition, exemplified by William Blake--it is to the latter that this new... Read More about God's Loud Hand: Poems (Southern Literary Studies)

In Observing the Invisible, Kelly Cherry crafts poems that explore the ever-evolving realm of modern physics, confronting the invisibilities and mysteries of the material world. She leverages challenging ideas into a space of contemplative wonder as the book moves from external observation into an ... Read More about Observing the Invisible: Poems

Winner of the 2013 L. E. Phillabaum Poetry Award In her ninth collection of poetry, Kelly Cherry explores the domain of language. Clear and accessible, the poems in The Life and Death of Poetry examine the intricacies and limitations of communication and its ability to help us transcend our world ... Read More about The Life and Death of Poetry: Poems

"Robert Oppenheimer was a complex human being. No biography yet written comes even close to this elegant skein of poems in capturing his life and character."--Richard Rhodes, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb Quartet for J. Robert Oppenheimer records in poetry the ... Read More about Quartet for J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Poem (Sea Cliff Fund)

In this book-length sonnet sequence, Kelly Cherry explores the philosophical domain, addressing classic questions, raising new ones, and sometimes doing philosophy in fourteen lines. A former philosophy student in graduate school, she retains a deep love of philosophical inquiry and maintains that o... Read More about The Retreats of Thought (Voices of the South)

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 co... Read More about Hazard and Prospect: New and Selected Poems