Debora Greger
Penguin USA, 2004
ISBN: 0143034219
In Western Art, her seventh book of poetry, Debora Greger walks out of art history class and into the world, from the awe-inspiring valleys of the Rocky Mountains to Europe and even to the edge of Asia. A night wedding in Venice, an encounter with a girl on an aqueduct in Istanbul, a walk into the emptiness of the Florida prairie, standing before a Rembrandt painting or a tomb in Ravenna – these portraits of travel reveal a poet never at home even when home, a poet drawn both to the austerity of solitude and the excitement of lands unvisited. Debora Greger’s poems love the accident of discovery; she is a poet whose intimacies are expressed in whispers, whose secrets come in sidelong glances.