Results for "Keenan, Deborah"

These are poems of deep sentiment, and certain collisions of memory and imagination; poems that respect melancholy; and poems that deepen our understanding of betrayal and tenderness, love, loss and even violence. This book is about decades of thinking, feeling, considering what living might really ... Read More about The Saint of Everything

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... Read More about Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems

Minnesota Book Award for Poetry finalist, 1995. "A very satisfying cumulative beauty. . . .These are, simply, poems about love (while not exactly love poems) and the many forms it takes. They are finally not about happiness. Best of all, they are smart enough to know the difference."--The Nation... Read More about Happiness