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Overview
In her highly anticipated new collection, Deborah Keenan sifts through inanimate objects and forgotten memories in search of personal validation. Her journal-like confessions create an instant bond with the reader, yet these seemingly simple poems daringly redefine common language. Keenan skillfully twists words to suit her ends, creating a colorful, dream-like world filled with lions, paintings, wars, and mummies. Throughout, she constantly reorganizes this world in an effort to realize her place in it.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781571314260 |
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Publisher: | Milkweed Editions |
Publication date: | 03/16/2007 |
Pages: | 224 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d) |
Table of Contents
Willow Room, Green Door
I
The Beauty of the Painting 3
The Exactness of the Imitation 4
The Appropriateness of the Depiction 5
Verlag Dabritz, Long Ago in Munich, Now in the Poem 6
The Game In Progress 8
Still Life with Scapegoat//Safe in the Family 9
II
The Complete and Undisturbed Lion Skeleton 12
Guessed "True" Answer Was "Bridge" 13
III
Maybe He's Grateful but Get Out of His Way 15
Kandinsky in the Hermitage 16
November 1, 2004 17
Passage from Isaiah 18
Traveling in the Realms of Gold 19
Research on the Color Red 20
It's a Book about Summer, So Cottonwoods and the Rivers Are Key 21
Angel Island and Its Meaning and Value 23
The Black Angel and Henri Coulette 25
V
Woman on Laurel Street Reports That Her Neighbor Has Stolen Nine Pairs of Her Shoes and Left a Pile of Honey and Flour by Her Car 27
Woman on Botticelli Street Reports the Phrase "The End Is Near" Written in Wax on Her Driveway 29
March 7, 2005 30
Stained Glass and What It Could Mean 31
VI
Hockney's Joyful Blue and Purple Road 32
She Thought, I Am Walking Around My Country 34
Botticelli Street and Its Implications 35
VII
Describe the Difference between Depict and Evoke 37
Nature Not Culture 38
And So It Was I Entered the Broken World 39
Tree of Life Made by an Outsider Artist 41
A Tree Is Not a Human Thing 42
VIII
Locked in Winter, Summer Lies 43
IX
Cutter's Way: The White Horse and Lisa Eichhorn Are Clear 47
The Children's Moon in the Poem about Summer 48
XI
It's a Poem about Summer and Summer Is Over 51
Willow Room 54
Green Door 56
Household Wounds
The Drive 61
The Recluse 63
Pursuit 65
The Man Who Knew about Winter 67
This Afternoon 70
Extended Metaphors 72
The Sorceress 75
The Woman Who Knew about Winter 79
What Will Last 82
The Mother 84
The Father 86
Household Wounds 88
Mending 91
After 93
What It Is 95
The Subject 97
A Poem about White Flowers 100
July Twenty-Seventh, Nineteen Seventy-Nine 102
How I Will Know When the War Is Over 104
One Angel Then
Angel Fish New Life 109
Living with Angels 111
Space Angels 117
The Eyes to See Angels 120
The Only Window That Counts
What My Daughter Asked about the Angel in the Tree 125
Formal Presentations of Love 126
Declaration of February 128
Divorce 130
Grief 133
Belonging to God 134
Folds of White Dress/Shaft of Light 136
Be Good 138
Good Dreams or Milk 140
What He Liked He Had a Lot Of 142
The Trees 144
The Amateur 145
Admission 147
Greenland Mummy 149
Happiness
Small History 155
Alone 161
Architecture 163
The Fathers Walking Away from Houses 165
When the Dead Come to Visit in Dreams 167
Fox 169
Living 171
Burning 173
Loving Motels 176
Rogue Wave 179
Why They Belong Together 182
Comfort 184
What It Was Like Today 185
Lilacs and Hail 188
Night Walk 190
Amnesia Plague 193
How I Walk 195
Cordelia: One Portrait at a Time 199
Good Heart
What It Was Like Today: Given Over 203
Travel 204
After D.H. Lawrence 206
What It Was Like Today: Not Taking Their Place 208
The Painting of the Amaryllis 209
Aerial View of Caribou/Slow Moves in the Black-and-White Movie 211
I Knew Her Once 212
In Emerald 214
The Wind 216
Hope 217
Good Heart 222
When Men Poets You Admire and Respect Can Only Answer Sappho When Asked in Public Are There Any Women Poets They Admire 226
What It Was Like Today: Facing East 227
The Last Lion 228
His Red Chair 230
The Exchange 231
Signing My Name in the Book of the Dead 232
Gone 235
REM Channels Leonard Cohen 237
Common 239
Time and Love 241
The Park 243
Kingdoms
If You Say Luck You Can't Say God 249
Portrait of Soon 251
Two Sisters 253
The Boy I Quit For 254
July//The Right Hand Was a Medusa 256
August//No Rain 257
Blue Heron 259
The Four Goldfinches and One Scarlet Tanager 260
Small Panacea and Lucky for Us 262
Nine Mile Creek//What Was Written There 264
The Baby 265
Index of Titles and First Lines 267
Acknowledgments 277
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