The Winter Keeper

by Eva Hooker

“Here every word is weighted, measured, chosen with the care that renders it fit for the damask of Eva Hooker’s lapidary art. Plain American downrightness shaking hands with surrealism–whatever makes ‘antinomies of fit & obligation’ into what we need, ‘a house deep enough to live in / in the coldest season.’ Begin with 'What They Said in the Avon Quik Mart,' then read 'The One Man Rocking There.' This is a memorable, eloquent debut.” (Frank Bidart)

28 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2000

About the author

Eva Hooker's poems have appeared in journals such as AGNI, Conjunctions, Harvard Review, Massachusetts Review, Memorious, New England Review, Notre Dame Review, Orion, Salmagundi, Spoon River, Terrain, Water~Stone and Witness, as well as Best New Poets 2008. She is a professor of English and writer-in-residence at Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana. Prior to her appointment at Saint Mary’s, she was Regents Professor of Poetry at Saint John’s University in Minnesota. She is a Sister of the Holy Cross.