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Title: Rising Venus: Poems by Kelly Cherry ISBN: 0-8071-2768-X Publisher: Louisiana State University Press Pub. Date: April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95

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Comment: Working in a public library, I read voraciously. Poets are my people, and Kelly Cherry is my poet. This, her latest collection, is the book I fell into, this summer, this autumn, and now winter. I've carried my copy to Albuquerque, to Michigan, to work. Simply, it's the company I want to keep.

The title poem revises the myth of Venus into human form-- a women who rises into herself:
"Myth is the portal / through which we pass, / becoming human at last, / rising out of dream / and desire to realms / of reality, where love, / a woman, by Jove, / survives, strong and free, / engendering her own destiny".

Certainly, there is despair in this book. There is also a miracle which unfolds itself within the arc. Right at its center, the line where despair meets peace in the heart of a woman is fully, uniquely and authentically rendered.

The skill of this poet is unreal, really. At the risk of sounding dramatic: I cannot fathom a world without these poems. They belong to every place. They alter my space, my mode, my identity, and my regard for other people.