Willow Room, Green Door
New and Selected Poems
by Deborah Keenan
Written over the course of three decades, this extraordinary
collection of new and selected poems presents a body of work from
Deborah Keenan that is expressive variously of love and rage,
vulnerability and authority, distraction and focus, and perhaps above
all, a sharply empathetic sense of observation. Deborah Keenan’s work
balances holding on to what is dear with letting go of what she cannot
change.
With refreshing curiosity, these poems capture rich layers of life in
trial and bliss alike, enabling us at last to see what a number of her
contemporaries have recognized for some time: Deborah Keenan is one of
our great poets.
"For the rest, she needed to recede. She felt herself
As a vanishing point. In the beginning of the summer
She’d been content in the middle distance–had faith
In love and art and the beauty of the night.
Now–diminished by the battle of the Gold Star Mothers,
By the dusty Texas road and the hatred saturating
The air–she was appropriately small. If only
She could shrink like this for the daughter’s sake,
Protect the daughter, VALUE the daughter, but
Be very, very small . . . not maiden, not princess."
—from “The Children’s Moon in the Poem about Summer”
Deborah Keenan
Author's Bio:Deborah Keenan is the author of Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems. Her previous books of poetry include Good Heart, Happiness, and Kingdoms. She is also the co-editor, with Roseann Lloyd, of Looking for Home: Women Writing About Exile,
winner of the American Book Award in 1991. Keenan has received two Bush
Foundation Fellowships, an NEA Fellowship, and the Loft-McKnight Poet
of Distinction Award. She has four children, and is a professor and
faculty advisor in the Graduate Liberal Studies School at Hamline
University.
Quotes:“Reading these poems it often seemed as if each individual line was a
poem in itself and contained, in miniature, the whole. . . . In the
end, what Willow Room, Green Door offers more than anything else is
sheer pleasure: this is lyric poetry that sings, enchants, debunks and
then reconstructs the truths and mysteries of our lives.” –Jim Moore,
author of Lightning at Dinner
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Binding: Paperback with flaps
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Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2007
Size: 6 x 8
Edition: 1st
Genre: Poetry
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781571314261
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