From a Burning Building - Softcover

O'keefe, Kerry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1596610360 ISBN 13: 9781596610361

Publisher: March Street Pr, 2005

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From the Inside Flap:

Fierce in her honesty and embrace of experience, Kerry O’Keefe writes with calm, heart-breaking authority of what it is really like to love. Her tough-minded lyrics are shorn of sentimentality, yet full of tenderness. Each one is an illumination, expertly crafted, direct and yet mysterious. We’ve been waiting a long time for the voice in these stunning poems: it’s the voice of an adult woman who knows how our hunger for life feeds us, how our failures can make our survival shine. —Joan Larkin, author of Cold River Eluard said that “There is another world and it is in this one.” These poems find that other world inside the everyday of cooking and mothering and just getting by. Sitting in a church and disregarding the priest as a distraction from the quiet and the candles, music, and how scars turn to light, loving and remembering, her past as a professional blues singer, and a transmutation of the blues into the silky lyrics of a seamless voice—all these and sometimes a sharp wit that reins in the heart gone too far. —Doug Anderson, author of The Moon Reflected Fire and Blues for Unemployed Secret Police

About the Author:

Kerry O’Keefe grew up in Connecticut on the Long Island Sound. She received a B.A. from Trinity College and for a decade was a professional singer. Now she is solely a writer. She works for the Five College Center for the Study of World Languages, and runs a writing group from her home. She lives in Northampton with her two children, Grace and Gus and recently has begun to sing again.

About this edition

• Publisher: March Street Pr
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1596610360
• ISBN 13: 9781596610361
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 25