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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464377203321

Autore

Becker Robin <1951->

Titolo

Domain of perfect affection / / Robin Becker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2006]

©2006

ISBN

0-8229-9115-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (89 p.)

Collana

Pitt poetry series

Disciplina

811/.54

Soggetti

Poetry

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Part I""; ""The New Egypt""; ""Holy Card""; ""Intersex""; ""The Poconos""; ""Manifest Destinies""; ""August""; ""Man of the Year""; ""Against Pleasure""; ""A Pasture of My Palm""; ""Sound View""; ""Salon""; ""Lament of the Mangle""; ""The Drawer""; ""The Dome Fire""; ""The Architect of Happiness""; ""After the Snowstorm, the Bay""; ""Borderline""; ""Part II""; ""Angel Supporting St. Sebastian""; ""Soot and Spit""; ""Qualities Boys Like Best in Girls""; ""Simple Dark""; ""Orienteer: The Childhood Drawings of William Steeple Davis, 1884�1961""; ""Subject / Matter""

""The Miniaturists""""Great Sleeps I Have Known""; ""Summer�s Tale""; ""The Dogs of Santorini""; ""Head of an Old Man""; ""Description""; ""Part III""; ""Rain""; ""Mah-Jongg Fantasia""; ""Mail Order""; ""Now""; ""Old Dog""; ""Island of Daily Life""; ""Head of an Angel""; ""Cohort""; ""The Outside Agitator""; ""Autumn Measure""; ""Lodging""; ""Late Butch-Femme""; ""Birds of Prey""; ""OK, Tucker""; ""On Friendship""; ""With Two Camels and One Donkey""; ""The Wild Heart""; ""Notes""; ""Acknowledgments""

Sommario/riassunto

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 Dürer, 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 leg

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Record Nr.

UNIORUON00030780

Autore

SCHULZE, Winfried

Titolo

Reich und Turkengefahr im spaten 16. Jahrundert : Studien zu den politischen und gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen einer ausseren Bedrohung / Winfried Schulze

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Munchen, : Beck, 1978 xvi, 417 p. ; 24 cm

Classificazione

OTT IV

Soggetti

Impero Ottomano - Storia - Sec. 17

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia