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Willow Room, Green Door
Milkweed Editions, 2007
“A great soul is speaking in these poems, after long thought and meditation and inward dialogue.”
– Charles Baxter
Written over the course of three decades, this extraordinary collection of new and selected poems presents a body of work from Deborah Keenan that is expressive variously of love and rage, vulnerability and authority, distraction and focus, and perhaps above all, a sharply empathetic sense of observation. Deborah Keenan’s work balances holding on to what is dear with letting go of what she cannot change.
Recipient of the Minnesota Book Award for Poetry in 2008.