Your Autobiography: Poems - Softcover

Cherry, Kelly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0881467014 ISBN 13: 9780881467017

Verlag: Mercer University Press, 2019

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Reseña del editor:

Your Autobiography takes on the large issues of war and espionage, ethics and theology, identity and family. Kelly Cherry's travels to Russia began in 1965, where she met a Latvian and the two tried to marry but authorities refused to allow it. In Your Autobiography, reference to earlier wars (e.g. Vietnam, Syria) leads to Bonhoeffer's battle with the Nazis on behalf of his church. The poet's responses to Bonhoeffer's statement allow a dialogue to form from different points of view. That dialogue leads to a sequence about the author's sister and various "family or domestic wars." Now that Cherry is the only one left standing, she wishes she could bring them all back, and tries to do so in this book--her sister especially. The collection ends with Cherry's translation of The Fortunes Of Men, which examines how God, perhaps better called Lady Luck, plays her cards. Cherry's poetry takes the reader on a journey of self-introspection and self-examination. Her words permeate a reader's being in multiple ways both emotionally and intellectually.

Biografía del autor:

Kelly Cherry is the Eudora Welty Professor Emerita of English and Evjue-Bascom Professor Emerita in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The recipient of numerous honors and awards, Cherry was named the poet laureate of Virginia in 2010 and is author of more than twenty-five books of fiction and poetry.

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• Verlag: Mercer University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0881467014
• ISBN 13: 9780881467017
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 109