Willow room, green door : new and selected poems / Deborah Keenan.
2007
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Title
Willow room, green door : new and selected poems / Deborah Keenan.
Author
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9781571314260 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1571314261 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1571314261 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Published
Minneapolis, Minn. : Milkweed Editions, [2007]
Copyright
©2007
Language
English
Description
xi, 277 pages ; 21 cm
Exhibited
2007 Poets House Showcase.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)73993111
Summary
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.
Note
Includes index.
Poems.
Poems.
Formatted Contents Note
[pt. 1]. Willow room, green door
1
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
2
The complete and undisturbed lion skeleton
Guessed "true" answer was "bridge"
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
Hockney's joyful blue and purple road
She thought, I am walking around my country
Botticelli Street and its implications
7
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
8
Locked in winter, summer lies
9
Cutter's Way : the white horse and Lisa Eichhorn are clear
10
The children's moon in the poem about summer
11
It's a poem about summer and summer is over
Willow room
Green door.
[pt. 2]. Household wounds
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
[pt. 3]. One angle then
Angel fish new life
Living with angels
Space angels
The eyes to see angels
[pt. 4]. The only window that counts
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.
[pt. 5]. Happiness
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
[pt. 6]. Good heart
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
[pt. 7] Kingdoms
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
Index of titles and first lines
Acknowledgments.
1
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
2
The complete and undisturbed lion skeleton
Guessed "true" answer was "bridge"
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
Hockney's joyful blue and purple road
She thought, I am walking around my country
Botticelli Street and its implications
7
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
8
Locked in winter, summer lies
9
Cutter's Way : the white horse and Lisa Eichhorn are clear
10
The children's moon in the poem about summer
11
It's a poem about summer and summer is over
Willow room
Green door.
[pt. 2]. Household wounds
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
[pt. 3]. One angle then
Angel fish new life
Living with angels
Space angels
The eyes to see angels
[pt. 4]. The only window that counts
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.
[pt. 5]. Happiness
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
[pt. 6]. Good heart
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
[pt. 7] Kingdoms
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
Index of titles and first lines
Acknowledgments.
Awards
Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award Honor Book.
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