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is just as important as what is left in. They are able to embrace
and write lucidly about subjects that have always mattered and
always will-family, spirituality, and the use of language itself,
among others.
Kelly Cherry is the author of more than thirty books in her
decades-long writing career. Among these are novels, memoirs,
criticism, chapbooks, poetry collections, and even translations (a
subject she addresses in her current book). The Life and Death of
Poetry is her most recent poetry compendium and in some ways
can serve as her testament as a poet, since its chief concern is the
use of language.
The book is divided into three sections: "Learning the Language," "Welsh Table Talk," and "What the Poet Wishes to Say," all
preceded by a quotation from C. S. Pierce: ". . . Thus my language
is the sum total of myself; for the man is the thought." This is a
theme that clearly dominates the book-the idea of the inextricability of man and language, one creating the other, the second
defining the first. The poems in "Learning the Language" are
largely about the "education" of the poet, her initiation into the
potency of language and its powerful possibilities for good and
ill, creation and destruction. This is obvious in the poem simply
titled "Language":
Language
Conceals and discloses.
Lies and belies.
Discourses on roses
("A rose is a rose is . . .").
May be a disguise.
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