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waking blood

by (author) Deborah Keahey

Publisher
Turnstone Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2000
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888012524
    Publish Date
    Nov 2000
    List Price
    $12.95

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Description

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.

About the author

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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