The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart
  • Published: 15 April 2012
  • ISBN: 9780375711701
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 72
  • RRP: $35.00
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The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart

Poems

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Now in paperback, the final, posthumous collection of poems by Deborah Digges: rich stories of family life, nature's bounty, love, and loss--the overflowing of a heart burdened by grief and moved by beauty.

Now in paperback, the final, posthumous collection of poems by Deborah Digges: rich stories of family life, nature's bounty, love, and loss--the overflowing of a heart burdened by grief and moved by beauty.
 
When Deborah Digges died in the spring of 2009, at the age of fifty-nine, she left this gathering of poems that captures a stunning gift that prevailed to the end. Here are poems that speak of her rural Missouri childhood in a family with ten children; the love between men and women as well as the devastation of widowhood; the moods of nature; and throughout, touching all subjects, is the call to poetry itself.
  • Published: 15 April 2012
  • ISBN: 9780375711701
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 72
  • RRP: $35.00
Categories:

About the author

DEBORAH DIGGES

Deborah Digges was born and raised in Missouri. She is the author of three books of poems. Her first book, Vesper Sparrows, won the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Prize from New York University. Late in the Millennium was published in 1989, and Rough Music, which won the Kingsley Tufts Prize, was published in 1995. Digges has written two memoirs, Fugitive Spring (1991) and The Stardust Lounge (2001). She has received grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. Digges lives in Massachusetts, where she is a professor of English at Tufts University.

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Praise for The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart

Praise for The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart

  • "Haunting and penetrating...Full of memorable images and sly humor." --Library Journal
  • "Usually the approach to devastation isn't casual, though the grace of these poems gives them an eerie lightness, as though they were born of a necessity in no hurry to claim our attention. Usually the language of grief asks of its readers a gentle collaboration, not the willfulness of tragedy, not a walk 'through the rooms of the dead' where the wind does not blow. These are love poems of such power and persuasion, Deborah Digges has found a way to bestow grief with a startling beauty. 'The Birthing' alone will make her name, her suffering, prevail. There is nothing like this book in our language." --Philip Schultz

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