Happiness
Poems by Deborah Keenan

"A very satisfying cumulative beauty. . . . These are, simply, poems about love (while not exactly love poems) and the many forms it takes. They are finally not about happiness. Best of all, they are smart enough to know the difference." - The Nation

"Intimate and fierce, ‘holy and carnal’ at once, Deborah Keenan’s poems move between extremes of temperature, the landscapes of Greece and the wintery backyards where the snow woman seems ‘ready to embrace us.’ These poems are quick-witted, tender, and generous, and they are so truthful to the passionate trials of familial lives that they seem eerie - they are that accurate." - Charles Baxter

In an unjust world, does a person of conscience have a right to be happy? Deborah Keenan’s poems contend that finding moments of happiness, of enlightenment, of ecstacy, is not only a right but a necessity of the human spirit.

Deborah Keenan is also the author of The Only Window That Counts, and, with Roseann Lloyd, co-editor of the award-winning anthology Looking for Home: Women Writing About Exile. Keenan lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

.