Research Catalog

Title

Hazard and prospect : new and selected poems / Kelly Cherry.

Author

Cherry, Kelly.

Publication

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Details

Description

x, 174 pages; 23 cm

Contents

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 -- 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 This Time Around -- At Night Your Mouth -- The Lonely Music -- From "Songs for a Soviet Composer" -- Berlin: An Epithalamion -- The Raiment We Put On -- Waiting for the End of Time -- Looking Back -- Memory -- 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 -- 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 -- A Diminishing Chord Modulating into Nihilism -- Now the Night -- In the End -- Requiem -- 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 -- 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 Then -- 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.

ISBN

• 9780807132623 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0807132624 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780807132630 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0807132632 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006102961

OCLC

• OCM77504716
• 77504716
• SCSB-5367763

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries