Your Autobiog (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780881467017)

YOUR AUTOBIOGRAPHY takes on the large issues of war and espionage, ethics and theology, identity and family. Kelly Cherrys 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 Bonhoeffers battle with the Nazis on behalf of his church. The poets responses to Bonhoeffers statement allow a dialogue to form from different points of view. That dialogue leads to a sequence about the authors 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 Cherrys translation of THE FORTUNES OF MEN, which examines how God, perhaps better called Lady Luck, plays her cards. Cherrys poetry takes the reader on a journey of self-introspection and self-examination. Her words permeate a readers being in multiple ways both emotionally and intellectually.

Author: Kelly Cherry
ISBN-10: 0881467014
ISBN-13: 9780881467017
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2019
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.30d