Domain of Perfect Affection (Pitt Poetry Series)
Robin Becker
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. ldquo;The Mosaic injunction against / the graven imagerdquo; inspires meditations on drawings by Duuml;rer, Evans, Klee, Marin, and del Sarto. To the consolations of art and human intimacy, Becker brings playfulness-ldquo;Worry stole the kayaks and soured the milkrdquo;-suffused with self-knowledge: ldquo;Worry wraps her long legs / around me, promises to be mine forever.rdquo; In ldquo;The New Egypt,rdquo; the narrator mines her familyrsquo;s legacy: ldquo;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.rdquo; Beckerrsquo;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.
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Details
| ISBN | 9780822959311 |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Publication Date | 28-Jul-06 |
| Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Format | Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 88 |
| Notes | Lambda Literary Award Finalist |
| LoC Classification | PS3552.E257 .D66 2006 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | Good |
| Subject | Poems; Poetry; Poetry / American / General; Poetry / General |
| BookID | 3196 |
