Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems
By (Author) Deborah Keenan
Milkweed Editions
Milkweed Editions
22nd June 2007
United States
General
Non Fiction
811.54
Winner of Minnesota Book Award (Poetry) 2008
Paperback
224
Width 152mm, Height 203mm
411g
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.