{"product_id":"the-keys-to-the-jail-9781938160264","title":"The Keys to the Jail","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Keys to the Jail asks the question of who is to blame for all we've lost, calling us to reexamine the harsh words of failed love, the aging of a once-beautiful body, even our own voracious desires. Keetje Kuipers is a poet of daring leaps and unflinching observations, whose richly textured lyrics travel from Montana's great wildernesses to the ocean-fogged streets of San Francisco as they search out the heart that's lost its way. Dolores Park In the flattening California dusk, women gather under palms with their bags of bottles and cans. The grass is feathered with the trash of the day, paper napkins blowing across the legs of those who still drown on a patchwork of blankets. Shirtless in the phosphorescent gloom of streetlamps, they lie suspended. This is my one good life--watching the exchange of embraces, counting the faces assembled outside the ice-cream shop, sweet tinge of urine by the bridge above the tracks, broken bike lock of the gay couple's hands, desperate clapping of dark pigeons--who will take it from me? A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry, Keetje Kuipers's debut collection, Beautiful in the Mouth, won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. She has been the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Resident, and is currently an assistant professor at Auburn University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of Library Journal's \"Thirty Amazing Poetry Titles for Spring 2014\" \"Keetje Kuipers' poems are daring, formally beautiful and driven by rich imagery and startling ideas.\" --Tracy K. Smith \"Quietly ferocious, The Keys to the Jail is full of love and after-love poems that come clad with 'bell[ies] of rusted steel.' These poems are not afraid to feel, not afraid of desire or beauty or the inevitability of their respective undoings, not afraid 'to eat the filter on the cigarette.' Yet there is such generosity here in the 'repenned' landscape -- out among the wolves and ghosts, the rodeo queens and Dairy Queens --that we are allowed to glean from hunger, a form of contentment, and still welcome the cavernous desire for more.\" --Elyse Fenton \"In these poems, longing is only shaped like emptiness, but really is filled with everything one might reach toward or put their mouth to as they sate themselves on desire. The Keys to the Jail are what they promise to be, an opening of the dark rooms within us, not to escape but to enter, to let the eyes adjust and learn to see what bright wants exist there.\" --Natalie Diaz \"As a whole, the poems in The Keys to the Jail are bittersweet and tenderly defiant. As art, these poems both estrange and fulfill us. They leave us aching with the desire to overcome the want and sadness of the darker aspects of existence.\" -The Journal \"Kuipers is a keeper ... Readers will feel the impassioned yet controlled energy that is lifted from these poems; fearless and possessing a precise sense of timing, -Kuipers's work keeps us reading.\" -The Library Journal Her poems about love between women can be her strongest, and her identities complex ... her sense of place serves her sense of how people behave. Fans of Mark Doty, or of Eavan Boland will find a lot here to like, especially once they get past the predictable breakup poems, into the verse about self-discovery, lust pursued or affection found, where the poet exclaims, 'hope is the saddest\/ secret of all: Please, be wild for me.'\"-Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGoodbye Is Forever\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnother Time, Another Place\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t      1\u003cbr\u003eWolf Season\t2\u003cbr\u003eOur Last Vacation\t3\u003cbr\u003eIf One of Us Can’t Live Like This\t4\u003cbr\u003eIn a Sentimental Mood\t5\u003cbr\u003eLover Long Gone\t6\u003cbr\u003eDear John Letter, Never Sent\t7\u003cbr\u003eStowaway Future\t8\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThief, Thief\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Extinct\t10\u003cbr\u003eSometimes a Season Changes Overnight\t11\u003cbr\u003eJust Outside\t12\u003cbr\u003eBrotherhood\t14\u003cbr\u003eGetting Over the Future\t15\u003cbr\u003eWhat I Thought Then\t16\u003cbr\u003eTraces of the Imperfectly Erased\t17\u003cbr\u003eIn Medias Res\t18\u003cbr\u003eWarning Posted at the Marin Headlands:\u003cbr\u003ePeople Have Been Swept from the Cliffs and Drowned\t19\u003cbr\u003eAll the Rivers in the World\t20\u003cbr\u003eThe Open Spaces\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Year of Rain\u003cbr\u003e\t\u003cbr\u003eThe Keys to the Jail\t22\u003cbr\u003eBirthday Poem\t23\u003cbr\u003eLetter to an Inmate in Solitary Confinement\t24\u003cbr\u003eThe Ocean\t26\u003cbr\u003eMelancholy\t27\u003cbr\u003eThe Loneliness\t29\u003cbr\u003eToo Many Bridges\t30\u003cbr\u003eOverwinter\t31\u003cbr\u003ePlease Check Under the Bed\t32\u003cbr\u003eBees, And Other Dead Things Found in Winter\t33\u003cbr\u003eEvery Bright Thing\t34\u003cbr\u003eDrought\t35\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFive Women Ending in a Flower\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI. The Girl\t37\u003cbr\u003eII. The Older Woman\t39\u003cbr\u003eIII. The Whore\t40\u003cbr\u003eIV. The Femme\t42\u003cbr\u003eV. The Wife\t44\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoison on the Street\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDog Gun Lake\t47\u003cbr\u003eSpeaking as the Male Poet\t48\u003cbr\u003eFor All the Dead Lovelies\t49\u003cbr\u003eI Will Away\t50\u003cbr\u003eThe Oar\t51\u003cbr\u003eAbstinence\t53\u003cbr\u003eSick Days\t54\u003cbr\u003ePerfect Crime\t55\u003cbr\u003eI Wasn’t Searching for a New Language, But a New Meaning\t56\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome Advice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the Museum of Modern Art\t58\u003cbr\u003eCold Comfort in October\t59\u003cbr\u003eEntreaty\t60\u003cbr\u003eSome Advice for Both of Us\t61\u003cbr\u003eApplied Science\t62\u003cbr\u003eDolores Park\t63\u003cbr\u003eThe Doctor\t64\u003cbr\u003eThe Story\t66\u003cbr\u003eOught\t67\u003cbr\u003eSomething with a Heart in It\t68\u003cbr\u003eA Beautiful Night for the Rodeo\t69\u003cbr\u003eJonathan Plays in the Key of E\t70","brand":"BOA Editions, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51360277922135,"sku":"9781938160264","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781938160264.jpg?v=1754127202","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-keys-to-the-jail-9781938160264","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}