Deena Metzger

Deena Metzger is a writer and healer living at the end of the road in Topanga, California. Her books include the novels Doors: A Fiction for Jazz Horn, The Other Hand, What Dinah Thought, Skin: Shadows/Silence A Love Letter in the Form of a Novel, and The Woman Who Slept with Men to Take the War Out of Them—a novel in the form of a play. Writing for Your Life: A Guide and Companion to the Inner Worlds is her classic text on writing and the imagination. Ruin and Beauty: New and Collected Poems is her most recent book.

Books Authored

Image of La Negra y Blanca; Fugue and Commentary
Author(s):
Deena Metzger
Genre(s):
Contemporary

La Negra y Blanca; Fugue and Commentary

July 15, 2011
Reviewed by: 
Pendred Noyce

“Among the conventions the author has dissolved include a clear timeline, narrative flow, a single version of events, and revelation of character through action. Some of Ms.

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Image of Feral
Author(s):
Deena Metzger
Genre(s):
Literary Fiction

Feral

March 8, 2011
Reviewed by: 
Pendred Noyce

A woman therapist is called by neighbors to coax a wild girl down from a tree.

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