Anglický jazyk

Domain of Perfect Affection

Vydavateľstvo: University of Pittsburgh Press
Rok vydania: 2006
Formát: Paperback
Rozmer: 217 x 154 mm
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9780822959311

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O knihe

In "Domain of Perfect Affection, "Robin Becker explores the conditions under which we experience and resist pleasure: in beauty salon, summer camp, beach, backyard, or museum; New York or New Mexico. "The Mosaic injunction against / the graven image" inspires meditations on drawings by Durer, Evans, Klee, Marin, and del Sarto. To the consolations of art and human intimacy, Becker brings playfulness--"Worry stole the kayaks and soured the milk"--suffused with self-knowledge: "Worry wraps her long legs / around me, promises to be mine forever." In "The New Egypt," the narrator mines her family's legacy: "From my father I learned the dignity / of exile and the fire of acquisition, / not to live in places lightly, but to plant / the self like an orange tree in the desert." Becker's shapely stanzas--couplets, tercets, quatrains, pantoum, sonnet, syllabics--subvert her colloquial diction, creating a seamless merging of subject and form. Luminous, sensual, these poems offer sharp pleasures as they argue, elegize, mourn, praise, and sing.