Death and Transfiguration

by Kelly Cherry

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807122122
• ISBN13: 9780807122129
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"