Award-winning poet Kelly Cherry is also an advocate of serious thinking about poetry. Collected here are the results of thirty years of her thinking, including some pieces published for the first time. She tackles such large questions as: Why poetry? What is a poem? What is the relationship of poetry to history? Is the poem an aesthetic object or a form of communication? Her answers are enlightening, broadly applicable, persuasive, and sometimes personally revealing. She writes with sympathy and understanding and, always, a willingness to be surprised and educated. In these pages, insights abound, ideas provoke, wit shines, and the prose has the grace and power of poetry.
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Kelly Cherry is a recipient of the James G. Hanes Poetry Prize from the Fellowship of Southern Writers and author of six books of poetry and five chapbooks of poetry. She is Eudora Welty Professor Emerita of English and Evjue-Bascom Professor Emerita in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Visiting Eminent Scholar at the University of Alabama, Huntsville.
"Any reader interested in poetry will enjoy this book (along with anyone who likes clear and lively writing." -- Peter Meinke
"She writes like a dream, with a prose style that will befriend, woo, soothe, and challenge." -- Ronald Wallace
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