RIVER HOUSE
ALSO BY SALLY KEITH
Design
Dwelling Song
The Fact of the Matter
© 2015, Text by Sally Keith
© 2015, Cover art by Matthea Harvey
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Published 2015 by Milkweed Editions
Printed in the United States of America
Cover design by Mary Austin Speaker
Author photo by Juana Medina
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Keith, Sally.
[Poems. Selections]
River house : poems / Sally Keith. -- First edition.
pages cm
ISBN 978-1-57131-465-9 (paperback : acid-free paper)--978-1-57131-911-1 (ebook)
I. Title.
PS3561.E3773A6 2015
811’.54--dc23
2014033918
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Ann Elmore Keith
(1947-2010)
Contents
10 Chapter 10
11 Chapter 11
12 Chapter 12
13 Chapter 13
14 Chapter 14
15 Chapter 15
16 Chapter 16
17 Chapter 17
18 Chapter 18
19 Chapter 19
20 Chapter 20
21 Chapter 21
22 Chapter 22
23 Chapter 23
24 Chapter 24
25 Chapter 25
26 Chapter 26
27 Chapter 27
28 Chapter 28
29 Chapter 29
30 Chapter 30
31 Chapter 31
32 Chapter 32
33 Chapter 33
34 Chapter 34
35 Chapter 35
36 Chapter 36
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