Cover Page; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Part I: 1887-1902 Sun Prairie: The Wide and Generous Land; 1; 2; 3; Part II: 1903-1918 Distant Skies: Explorations and Initiations; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; Part III: 1919-1928 An Ordered Life: Manhattan and Lake George; 15; 16; 17; 18; 19;
O'Keeffe : Days in a Life
β Scribed by C. S. Merrill
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 143
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
"Carol Merrill's tribute to Georgia O'Keeffe is poems in the shape of finely rendered sketches, some of them even paintings. These intimate images convey the delicate and tough shape of O'Keeffe's final years in New Mexico."--Joy Harjo, author of She Had Some Horses "When I got O'Keeffe mss I sat down after midnite at kitchen table when I should've been in bed & read it thru in an hour because it was interesting, curious, distinctive, focused, condensed, epiphanous, ordinary & understandable. The details are all, sacramentalizing everyday life in a world of genius--a woman, vast space, chewy intelligence, almost selfless observation."--Allen Ginsberg, author of Howl
β¦ Subjects
O'Keeffe, Georgia, -- 1887-1986 -- Poetry. ; American poetry -- 20th century.; POE000000; POE005010
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