blackbird Spring 2008  Vol. 7  No. 1

NONFICTION

Kelly CherryKELLY CHERRY

   The Achievement of George Garrett

Kelly Cherry is the author of seventeen books, eight chapbooks, and two works of translation. Her most recent titles are Hazard and Prospect: New and Selected Poems (2007) and the novel In the Wink of An Eye (2004), both from Louisiana State University Press; History, Passion, Freedom, Death, and Hope: Prose About Poetry (University of Tampa Press, 2005); We Can Still Be Friends, a novel (Soho Press, 2003), and the poetic sequence Welsh Table Talk (Book Arts Conservatory of Washington, D.C., 2004). She currently lives in Halifax, Virginia.