Willow room, green door : new and selected poems

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Title:

Willow room, green door : new and selected poems

Author:

Keenan, Deborah.

ISBN:

9781571314260

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

Minneapolis, Minn. : Milkweed Editions, 2007.

Physical Description:

xi, 277 p. ; 21 cm.

General Note:

Includes index.

Subject Term:

Poetry -- 21st century.

American poetry -- 21st century.

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Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Stillwater Public Library	811.54 KEE	Searching... Unknown

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.

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

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