The Exiled Heart: A Meditative Autobiography

by Kelly Cherry

Book Overview

In January, 1965, in the caf of the Hotel Metropol, in Moscow, the young American poet Kelly Cherry met the young Latvian composer Imant Kalnin. They fell in love--and began an alliance of the heart and mind sustained over twenty-five years in the face of threats from the Central Committee, surveillance by the KGB, confiscation of mail by censors, and eve "disinformation." Their passionate friendship, growing out of a recognition of each other's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807116203
• ISBN13: 9780807116203
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A Rarity: a book that truly earns the highest praise

Ms. Cherry's *Exiled Heart* deserves any accolade one can muster: moving, extraordinary, strikingly intelligent, and--yes--heartbreaking. Ms. Cherry's meditations upon fate's intrusions into love are a balance of braininess and passion. Steve Vivian