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Keeper (Pitt Poetry Series) Paperback – October 29, 2013

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The poems in Keeper explore, and long for, intimacy: with nature, with others, with the unknown. They delve into purely dark spaces (the insides of birdhouses and mailboxes, caves of prehistoric paintings) and in-between places, searching out, as Paul Eluard put it, the other world inside this one, pointing to the pervasive sensuality that connects all beings, and to the fact that essential goodness and sorrow often walk hand in hand.

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University of Pittsburgh Press
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October 29, 2013
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"This debut collection is nearly perfect-measured, never pretending to ask more than it can deliver, and yet producing poem after proportional poem with a satisfying precision . . . Jueds tackles everything with a strong, sure intelligence, unravelling the 'reverse sides' in order to see how the world works . . . Kasey Jueds is a keeper."
—Georgia Review

“In ‘Keeper,’ Kasey Jueds leads the reader through spaces both urban and rural (from San Francisco to snowbound Wisconsin), both grand and minute (From the vast span of the sea to the interior of a mailbox). Yet all these images are bound together by the ceaseless desire ‘Keeper’ inspires in the reader: to be transformed by one’s surroundings, to unravel the world’s most slippery and liminal truths, to unbind oneself from one’s own inarticulate flesh.”
—Glyph Journal

“This perceptive, sensual history of a soul grows more bold and mysterious as it unfolds: to show a life pondering what to keep, what to lose, what to leave, and what to find: and discovering that, as an old gravestone says, what we had, we have.”
—Jean Valentine

“Kasey Jueds’s poems make my arterial blood rush! She is so uniquely attuned to the world, such a close noticer of both the human and the natural world (and both as one) that I often feel her poems are not so much about something as they are the actual things, the actual embodiments of their subjects. Isn’t that what good poems are supposed to do? I say, yes!”
—Thomas Lux

“From the very first poem, ‘The Bat’ we know we are in the presence of a vibrant new voice, confident and true. Jueds has a sensitive ear and a sharp eye. These poems of memory, of the natural world, and of art go from the specific to the abstract with amazing ease. ‘How perfect the things we are not meant to see’ she tells us, even as she is showing us these very things.”
—Linda Pastan

"A beautiful collection of meditations on keeping and its opposite, whether that be losing or relinquishing. Throughout the book she explores the hunger to hold on to the objects, experiences, memories that shape and define our passage through the world; and the very different hunger to move into the dark, into boundlessness and emptiness."
—Valparaiso Poetry Review

[Kasey Jueds’ Keeper] should be on many bookshelves. This book is packed full of gorgeous imagery. Her voice resonates as both mature woman, and innocent child. Her tone is worldly, even when mentioning the smallest of things. [This is] new poetry worthy of multiple reads.”
—Examiner.com

About the Author

Kasey Jueds’s poetry has appeared in numerous publications, including Beloit Poetry Journal, Prairie Schooner, Manhattan Review, Salamander, Crab Orchard Review, Women’s Review of Books, and 5AM. She has been awarded residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Soapstone, and the Ucross Foundation. A native of Coral Gables, Florida, she lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Pittsburgh Press; 1st edition (October 29, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 88 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 082296256X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0822962564
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.4 x 8.5 inches

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Melissa

Stunning Collection

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I read Kasey Jued’s marvelous KEEPER in one sitting weeks ago but since then have frequently revisited her poems. They leave me in such a vibrant state, caught in her spell of reverence and mystery. There is a keenness, an attention to the small and big places of the world, a searching, wistful quality to her work that moves and compels me. I highly recommend this book.

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Steven Rood

O, what a lovely book

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I read it today again, this time in one sitting, from first to last. (Sometimes I read poetry books back-to-front or by just dipping in.) Not only are the individual poems fine, but the book as a whole is beautifully put together, which reminds me how different and difficult an art it is to make a whole book. Kasey Jueds pushes her poems-- but gently and precisely-- deeper into the mysteries of childhood, of the green world, of birds, of a bat, of her loved ones, of longing, of absence and hints, and of wanting to capture and hold on to feelings that resist words. Her poetry is useful and beautiful.

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hmvanderhart

The title poem is stunning and located in the nesting boxes of other perfect poems in this collection

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 16, 2018

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Gorgeous, gorgeous narrative-lyric poetry from Kasey Jueds. Jueds is the female Frost we deserve (or don't!). The title poem is stunning and located in the nesting boxes of other perfect poems in this collection. You won't want to just read one poem, you need this whole book. Also would make an excellent gift for a reader you are trying to lure into poetry...

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Kinder teacher

I will read this book again and again

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 12, 2015

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This is a book I will read again and again, and keep close to my heart. Here's the description on the cover: "The poems in Keeper explore, and long for, intimacy: with nature, with others, with the unknown. They delve into purely dark spaces (the insides of birdhouses and mailboxes, caves of prehistoric paintings) and in-between places, searching out, as Paul Eluard put it, the other world inside this one, pointing to the pervasive sensuality that connects all beings, and to the fact that essential goodness and sorrow often walk hand in hand."

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 25, 2015

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This is one of those rare books that takes you to a magical place you had never imagined. a place that is unique to the author and generously shared with the reader. Jueds ability to draw the reader in at emotional and visual levels and always with the music of the unexpected word or image makes for reading and re-reading these really special poems. Worthy of all and any prizes that it may win.

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Laurie Miller Hornik

What beautiful poems!

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What beautiful poems! I love everything about this book!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 11, 2014

Fine, delicate work!

If I Had to Give Away 90% of My Poetry Books, I'd Keep This One

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 24, 2015

The first two lines of Kasey Jueds’s debut collection, Keeper, are “First dark, then more dark / smoothed down over it.” (“The Bat”) These lines, as arresting for their sound as for their sense, could stand as the book’s emblem. There are layers of darkness in this “nearly perfect” book, to quote the late Judith Kitchen, but the darkness is smoothed down with such care and tenderness that the result is more reverent than sorrowful.

In “No Letters,” Jueds writes, “The sky, sad as old paintings, / holds your airplane somewhere / in its blue mouth, and all the letters / I will not write / line up in their soft coats / of ink.” Many poems in Keeper do concern sadness and loss, but they’re never mopey or pitiable, and to call this a sad book is to miss the point. Keeper is less about sadness itself than it is about surviving and accepting sadness, which these poems do with quiet strength, acuteness of observation, and with such generosity that we can’t help feeling grateful for their speaker’s losses. In Jueds’s hands, a sad poem is not a plea; it’s a gift.

Yet the poems in Keeper are by no means all sad. There is also ekphrasis, memoir, nature poetry, and love poetry, all crafted with a rare combination of delicacy and authority. Jueds has the clear, calm eye of Jane Hirshfield, but with a warmth that makes her voice feel more like that of a confidante than that of a sensei. In “To Swim,” Jueds remembers a childhood lake as “my upside-down / house, kinder than sidewalks / or too-high branches, the bent red bike / that tipped me to the street.” In “Race Track, Hialeah, FL” she writes, “I slipped my arms into a dress of fog / and the whole unbroken summer / opened to let me in.” There is a Zen-like lightness to these poems, embodied in the fliers that appear throughout the book: bats, butterflies, owls, parrots, the rufous-sided towhee.

In “December Underneath,” Jueds takes the voice of a seed in winter, buried in “the quiet / before faith or desire,” then she tells us, “A woman / who has forgotten speech / must learn the words again / slowly. Knowing each / as new.” In Keeper, it often seems that ordinary speech has been forgotten and something original, surprising, and memorable learned in its place. The product of that learning is a language full of beauty, compassion, and humanity. This is a book to treasure and a debut to celebrate.

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