waking blood
- Publisher
- Turnstone Press
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2000
- Category
- General
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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.
