Hazard and Prospect

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: New and Selected Poems. With a dazzling mastery and range of tone, technique, form, and ideas, Cherry presents a lifetime of powerful writing that coheres into a single, seamless work. In it she responds to the natural world, to philosophical dilemmas, to spiritual longing, to political, ethical, and aesthetic questions, and, most powerfully, to love and loss. She shows us in sometimes searing poems where the hazards lie, and in transcendent verse a new, bright prospect, a "green place" on a farm in Virginia where time slows and holds and happiness abides.

Kelly Cherry is Eudora Welty Professor Emerita of English and Evjue-Bascom Professor Emerita in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

The Family	p. 3
Imagining the Past	p. 8
Ithaca	p. 10
My Mother's Swans	p. 11
The Grecian Grace of a White Egret	p. 12
Epithalamium	p. 13
Anniversary	p. 14
Alzheimer's	p. 15
Prayer for My Father: In Memoriam	p. 16
Miracle and Mystery	p. 17
How We Are Taken	p. 18
Falling	p. 19
The Bride of Quietness	p. 23
My Marriage	p. 25
From Venice: Letter to an Ex-Husband	p. 27
First Marriage	p. 28
Fission	p. 29
On Looking at an Artwork by My Ex-Husband, after His Death	p. 30
Wishing I Could Bring You Back and See Things More Clearly This Time Around	p. 31
At Night Your Mouth	p. 35
The Lonely Music	p. 37
From "Songs for a Soviet Composer"	p. 38
Berlin: An Epithalamion	p. 41
The Raiment We Put On	p. 43
Waiting for the End of Time	p. 44
Looking Back	p. 45
Memory	p. 46
Man on the Hall	p. 49
Nobody's Fool	p. 50
Lady Macbeth on the Psych Ward	p. 51
She Goes to War	p. 52
The Pines without Peer	p. 53
Dora	p. 54
Paranoia	p. 55
Catching Hell	p. 56
Bat Mother	p. 58
Family Life in the Twentieth Century	p. 61
The Promise	p. 62
History	p. 63
A Scientific Expedition in Siberia, 1913	p. 64
Forecast	p. 68
Lt. Col. Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova	p. 69
Death Comes to Those Who Know It	p. 71
Report from an Unnamed City	p. 72
At a Russian Writers' Colony	p. 73
A Diminishing Chord Modulating into Nihilism	p. 74
Now the Night	p. 76
In the End	p. 77
Requiem	p. 78
Reading, Dreaming, Hiding	p. 89
Late Afternoon at the Arboretum	p. 90
An Other Woman	p. 91
The Almost-Baby	p. 99
Rising Venus	p. 100
Adult Ed. 101: Basic Home Repair for Single Women	p. 102
Woman Living Alone	p. 104
Love	p. 105
Work	p. 106
My House	p. 107
Grace	p. 108
To a Young Woman	p. 109
The Same Rose	p. 115
The Rose	p. 116
Sunrise	p. 117
Study for an Annunciation	p. 118
Virgin and Child	p. 119
Galilee	p. 120
The Radical	p. 121
Golgotha	p. 123
Natural Theology	p. 124
How to Wait	p. 125
The Horse at Dusk	p. 127
The Heart of the World	p. 128
On Looking at a Yellow Wagon	p. 129
Questions and Answers	p. 130
And Then	p. 136
Byrd's Survey of the Boundary: An Abridgment	p. 139
God in the South	p. 143
God's Picnic (Blue Ridge)	p. 144
The Garden	p. 145
In the Field	p. 146
Wild Dogwood	p. 147
Blue Jay	p. 148
The Shape of the Air	p. 149
The Heat Down South (Richmond, 1955)	p. 150
A Farm in Virginia near the North Carolina Boundary	p. 151
Joy	p. 152
Virginia Reel	p. 153
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