Karen Green (artist)
American artist (born 1960)
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Karen L. Green (born 1960)[1] is an American artist. Her book Bough Down won the Believer Poetry Award.[2]
Born1960 (age 65–66)
NotableworkBough Down, The Forgiveness Machine
Spouse
AwardsBeliever Poetry Award
Karen Green | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1960 (age 65–66) |
| Notable work | Bough Down, The Forgiveness Machine |
| Spouse | |
| Awards | Believer Poetry Award |
She was married to author David Foster Wallace from 2004 until his death in 2008.[3][4][5][6] A year after Wallace's death, Green displayed a piece called The Forgiveness Machine at a gallery in Pasadena near the Los Angeles suburb of Claremont, where she and Wallace had lived in the four years they had been married.[7] For The Guardian, she described the piece as "The idea was that you wrote down the thing that you wanted to forgive, or to be forgiven for, and a vacuum sucked your piece of paper in one end. At the other it was shredded, and hey presto."[7]
Books
- Voices from La Frontera: Pioneer Women from the Big Bend Tell Their Stories (2002)
- Bough Down (2013)[8]
- Frail Sister (2018)[9]
