Research Catalog

Title

Willow room, green door : new and selected poems / Deborah Keenan.

Author

Keenan, Deborah.

Publication

Minneapolis, Minn. : Milkweed Editions, 2007.

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Details

Description

xi, 277 pages; 21 cm

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

The beauty of the painting -- The exactness of the imitation -- The appropriateness of the depiction -- Verlag Dabritz, long ago in Munich, now in the poem -- The game in progress -- Still life with scapegoat // safe in the family -- The complete and undisturbed lion skeleton -- Guessed "true" answer was "bridge" -- Maybe he's grateful but get out of his way -- Kandinsky in the hermitage -- November 1, 2004 -- Passage from Isaiah -- Traveling in the realms of gold -- Research on the color red -- It's a book about summer, so cottonwoods and the rivers are key -- Angel Island and its meaning and VALUE -- The black angel and Henri Coulette -- 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 -- Woman on Botticelli Street reports the phrase "the end is near" written in wax on her driveway -- March 7, 2005 -- Stained glass and what it could mean -- Hockney's joyful blue and purple road -- She thought, I am walking around my country -- Botticelli Street and its implications -- Describe the difference between depict and evoke -- Nature not culture -- And so it was I entered the broken world -- Tree of life made by an outsider artist -- A tree is not a human thing -- Locked in winter, summer lies -- Cutter's way : the white horse and Lisa Eichhorn are clear -- The children's moon in the poem about summer -- It's a poem about summer and summer is over -- Willow room -- Green door -- The drive -- The recluse -- Pursuit -- The man who knew about winter -- This afternoon -- Extended metaphors -- The sorceress -- The woman who knew about winter -- What will last -- The mother -- The father -- Household wounds -- Mending -- After -- What it is -- The subject -- A poem about white flowers -- July twenty-seventh, nineteen seventy-nine -- How I will know when the war is over -- Angel fish new life -- Living with angels -- Space angels -- The eyes to see angels -- What my daughter asked about the angel in the tree -- Formal presentations of love -- Declaration of February -- Divorce -- Grief -- Belonging to God -- Folds of white dress / shaft of light -- Be good -- Good dreams or milk -- What he liked he had a lot of -- The trees -- The amateur -- Admission -- Greenland mummy -- Small history -- Alone -- Architecture -- The fathers walking away from houses -- When the dead come to visit in dreams -- Fox -- Living -- Burning -- Loving motels -- Rogue wave -- Why they belong together -- Comfort -- What it was like today -- Lilacs and hail -- Night walk -- Amnesia plague -- How I walk -- Cordelia : one portrait at a time -- What it was like today : given over -- Travel -- After D. H. Lawrence -- What it was like today : not taking their place -- The painting of the amaryllis -- Aerial view of caribou/slow moves in the black-and-white movie -- I knew her once -- In emerald -- The wind -- Hope -- Good heart -- When men poets you admire and respect can only answer Sappho when asked in public are there any women poets they admire -- What it was like today : facing east -- The last lion -- His red chair -- The exchange -- Signing my name in the Book of the Dead -- Gone -- REM channels Leonard Cohen -- Common -- Time and love -- The park -- If you say luck you can't say God -- Portrait of soon -- Two sisters -- The boy I quit for -- July // the right hand was a Medusa -- August // no rain -- Blue heron -- The four goldfinches and one scarlet tanager -- Small panacea and lucky for us -- Nine mile creek // what was written there -- The baby.

ISBN

• 9781571314260 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1571314261 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006033339

OCLC

• OCM73993111
• 73993111
• SCSB-5328938

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries