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By (author): Deborah Keahey

A series of long poems that offer a wry look at personal politics and passions. Keahey pays particular attention to soul- and body-shaping experiences common in life but marginalized in published literature: female desire, depression, divorce, pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding.

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Deborah Keahey

Deborah Keahey was awarded the 1999 John Hirsch Award for most promising Manitoba writer and the 1994-95 Heaven Chapbook Award for the d word. She also wrote Making it Home: Place in Canadian Prairie Literature. Keahey has spent time in Calgary, Italy, Texas, Tennessee, Michigan, and Manitoba. She currently lives in British Columbia.

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A series of long poems that offer a wry look at personal politics and passions. Keahey pays particular attention to soul- and body-shaping experiences common in life but marginalized in published literature: female desire, depression, divorce, pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding.

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Dimensions:

99 Pages
8.5in * 5.5in * 1in
1lb

Published:

November 16, 2000

Country of Publication:

CA

Publisher:

Turnstone Press

ISBN:

9780888012524

Book Subjects:

POETRY / General

Featured In:

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Language:

eng

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