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9780826354204 Academic Inspection Copy

O'Keeffe

Days in a Life
  • ISBN-13: 9780826354204
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
  • By C. S. Merrill
  • Price: AUD $39.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 16/05/2014
  • Format: Paperback (203.00mm X 152.00mm) 144 pages Weight: 202g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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How to see her"""" is a question that runs through-out this suite of anecdotal poems about Georgia O'Keeffe. Carol Merrill, her cook, librarian, reader, nurse, and companion from 1973 to 1979, offers a unique portrait.
C. S. Merrill worked for Georgia O'Keeffe from 1973 to 1979 as secretary, librarian, reader, cook, nurse, and companion. Merrill is also the author of Weekends with O'Keeffe (UNM Press). She is the volunteer librarian at Ghost Ranch in northern New Mexico.
"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, sacramentalising everyday life in a world of genius-a woman, vast space, chewy intelligence, almost selfless observation."-Allen Ginsberg, author of Howl
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