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Digges, Deborah. The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart.(Brief article)(Book review)
Digges, Deborah. The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart. Knopf. 2010. c.80p. ISBN 978-0-307-26846-4. $25. POETRY
"Some things I say are prayers and others/ poems. I tell you now that I don't know/ the difference." In this posthumous collection, Digges (Trapeze) visits subjects she's already touched on in her other volumes: love, family, youth and aging, and loss--especially loss. These explorations are not redundant but necessary. In poems both haunting and penetrating, she deals with the death of both her husband and her brother. She considers her own existence: "Who made me who I am," she states rather than asks at one point. Yet these poems are also full of memorable …
