O'Keeffe: Days in a Life

Production Notes, Back Cover

This book is set in Electra designed by W. A. Dwiggins (1880–1956) in 1935. Early modernist with a rationalist axis, this face has distinct clarity, yet through its mix of thick and thin strokes vim, snap, and sparkle.  Ornamentation is from Caravan, also designed by Mr. Dwiggins.  Poetry :: Literature :: Southwest  “Carol Merrill’s tribute to Georgia O’Keeffe is poems in the shape of finely rendered sketches, some of them even paintings. These intimate images convey the delicate and tough shape of O’Keeffe’s final years in New Mexico.”  Joy Harjo, author of She Had Some Horses: Poems “When I got O’Keeffe mss I sat down after midnite at kitchen table when I should’ve been in bed & read it thru in an hour because it was interesting, curious, distinctive, focused, condensed, epiphanous, ordinary & understandable. The details are all, sacramentalizing everyday life in a world of genius—a woman, vast space, chewy intelligence, almost selfless observation.”  Allen Ginsberg, author of Howl and Other Poems C. S. Merrill worked for Georgia O’Keeffe from 1973 to 1979 as a secretary, librarian, reader, cook, nurse, and companion. Merrill is also the author of Weekends with O’Keeffe (UNM Press). She is the librarian at Ghost Ranch in northern New Mexico. 354204 780826 9 ISBN 978-0-8263-5420-4 90000 U N I V E R S I T Y O F N E W M E X I C O P R E S S unmpress.com • 800-249-7737 ISBN 978-0-8263-5420-4 ...