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A Kelly Cherry Reader

Kelly Cherry

Kelly Cherry has long been a writer whose work has remained vital and, due to her diligence, fresh. In this Reader, she collects a body of work, much of it…

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Football Rising Stars: Chloe Kelly

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Football Rising Stars dives into the incredible journeys of the world's best young players, from playing football in the park to performing in the biggest leagues.

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My Life and Dr.Joyce Brothers: A Novel in Stories

Kelly Cherry

This is a novel about some of life’s most serious subjects - the nature of family, ageing, parents, and alcoholism. Nina is a Virginia belle, now out shovelling Wisconsin snow…

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The Raiment We Put On: New & Selected Poems 2006-2018

Kelly Cherry

Poems from former Virginia Poet Laureate Kelly Cherry, edited by Pamela Uschuk and William Pitt Root.

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Rising Venus: Poems

Kelly Cherry

In this collection, Cherry reveals the fearsome beauty, vulnerability and complexity of women’s experience. The book’s journey is an ascension from the mysterious and overwhelming depths of despair and anguish…

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God’s Loud Hand: Poems

Kelly Cherry

If religious poetry may be thought of as a great river fed, in the English language, by two main streams, the devotional tradition, leading in recent times to Anne Sexton…

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The Life and Death of Poetry: Poems

Kelly Cherry

In her ninth collection of poetry, Kelly Cherry explores the domain of language. Clear and accessible, the poems in The Life and Death of Poetry examine the intricacies and limitations…

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Twelve Women in a Country Called America

Kelly Cherry

Kelly Cherry’s tenth work of fiction delivers twelve compelling stories about women struggling to find their way through everyday life. From a young woman’s nightmare piano lesson to an elderly…

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Temporium: Before the Beginning to After the End

Kelly Cherry

According to Kelly Cherry, Temporium is something like, but not altogether like, a short-story collection, because not all of these pieces are stories. Nor is this a collection of prose…

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Observing the Invisible: Poems

Kelly Cherry

Kelly Cherry crafts poems that explore the ever-evolving realm of modern physics, confronting the invisibilities and mysteries of the material world. She leverages challenging ideas into a space of contemplative…

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A Kind of Dream: Stories

Kelly Cherry

Interconnected stories span a five-generation journey through life, death, love, and loss, told in Kelly Cherry’s masterful and transcendent prose.

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The Exiled Heart: A Meditative Autobiography

Kelly Cherry

A nonfiction narrative journey that, of necessity, makes metaphorical excursions into philosophical territory as the author reflects on the nature of justice, the idea of utopia, morality in art, the…

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Death and Transfiguration: Poems

Kelly Cherry

In this collection, the author confronts the basic questions of love and death, faith and suffering. It focuses on the wisdom one gains from pain rather than on pain itself.

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Hazard and Prospect: New and Selected Poems

Kelly Cherry

Lyrical beauty and power, imposing metaphor, and thought both deep and precise are hallmarks of Kelly Cherry’s poetry, on view in Hazard and Prospect With a dazzling mastery and range…

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Hazard and Prospect: New and Selected Poems

Kelly Cherry

Lyrical beauty and power, imposing metaphor, and thought both deep and precise are hallmarks of Kelly Cherry’s poetry, on view in Hazard and Prospect With a dazzling mastery and range…

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The Retreats of Thought: Poems

Kelly Cherry

In this book-length sonnet sequence, Kelly Cherry explores the philosophical domain, addressing classic questions, raising new ones, and sometimes doing philosophy in fourteen lines. A former philosophy student in graduate…

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Quartet for J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Poem

Kelly Cherry

Records in poetry the life and times of one of America’s best-known scientists, the father of the atomic bomb who later lobbied for containment of nuclear weaponry. In brief, elegant…

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Your Autobiography: Poems

Kelly Cherry

Takes on the large issues of war and espionage, ethics and theology, identity and family. Kelly Cherry’s poetry takes the reader on a journey of self-introspection and self-examination. Her words…

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Zip, or Micrology: Very Short Poems About Very Small Things

Kelly Cherry

Zip, or Micrology takes a close look at things we often overlook because they are commonplace.

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Zip, or Micrology: Very Short Poems About Very Small Things

Kelly Cherry

Zip, or Micrology takes a close look at things we often overlook because they are commonplace.

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The Woman Who

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The seven stories in The Woman Who take a close and sharp look at the complex relationships between art and reality, between imagination and identity. They offer illuminating glimpses of…

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Cherry Slice

Jennifer Stone

When Kenny Thorpe, a contestant on Expose TV’s Big Blubber, the hot new celebrity weight-loss show, is murdered on live television in front of 3 million viewers, the case seems…

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Cherry Slice

Jennifer Stone

When Kenny Thorpe, a contestant on Expose TV’s Big Blubber, the hot new celebrity weight-loss show, is murdered on live television in front of 3 million viewers, the case seems…

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My Cruel Invention: A Contemporary Poetry Anthology

Kelly Cherry,Joel Allegretti,Marjorie Maddox

An outstanding collection of poetry about inventions and inventors, real and imagined, assembled by editor and poet, Bernadette Geyer –Back cover.

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The Weeping Cherry Tree

Caroline Verity

An old cherry tree and a bird, two best friends, become fearful of the imminent threat of a new orchard and factory. What happens when the nearby creek becomes polluted…

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The Weeping Cherry Tree

Caroline Verity

An old cherry tree and a bird, two best friends, become fearful of the imminent threat of a new orchard and factory. What happens when the nearby creek becomes polluted…

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Let’s Play, George!

Sweet Cherry Publishing

Meet the famous Rainbow friends, Zippy, George and Bungle, in puppet form!

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Four Virginia Poets Laureate(2004-2012): An Anthology & Reader’s Guide

Rita Dove (University of Virginia),Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda,Claudia Emerson,Kelly Cherry

The power of the written word can transform the human experience… One of the special roles of poetry is to concentrate observations and their attendant emotions in ways that can…

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Sophocles, 2: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

A boon for classicists and general readers alike. For the reader who comes to tragedy for the first time, these translations are eminently ‘accessible,’ and consummately American in tone and…

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A New Pleiade: Selected Poems

Fred Chappell,Kelly Cherry,R. H. W. Dillard,Brendan Galvin,George Garrett

A celebration of the close literary friendships between seven American poets. The affection and mutual respect of these poets for one another has resulted in this anthology, in which the…

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