O'Keeffe: Days in a Life [Paperback]

C. S. Merrill (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0963190989 | ISBN-13: 978-0963190987 | Publication Date: December 31, 1995

"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.

"These intimate images convey the delicate shape of O'Keeffe's final years in New Mexico."-- Joy Harjo

"When I got O'Keeffe mss I sat down after mid- nite at kitchen table when I should've been in bed and read thru in an hour because it was interesting, curious, distinctive, focused, condensed, epiphanous, ordinary and understandable."--Allen Ginsberg

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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.

About the Author

C. S. Merrill is the author of a book of poetry, O'Keeffe: Days in a Life (La Alameda Press, 1995). She works as librarian at Kewa Pueblo School and Cochiti Pueblo School.

Product Details

• Paperback: 135 pages
• Publisher: La Alameda Press (December 31, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0963190989
• ISBN-13: 978-0963190987
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,849,924 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)