03198nam 2200553 450 991078937120332120230828200139.00-8229-9115-2(CKB)3710000000094491(EBL)2045585(OCoLC)607767044(SSID)ssj0001184969(PQKBManifestationID)11702070(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001184969(PQKBWorkID)11198672(PQKB)10497018(MiAaPQ)EBC2045585(Au-PeEL)EBL2045585(CaPaEBR)ebr10852669(CaONFJC)MIL586650(EXLCZ)99371000000009449120070403h20062006 uy| pengur|n|---|||||txtccrDomain of perfect affection /Robin BeckerPittsburgh, Pennsylvania :University of Pittsburgh Press,[2006]©20061 online resource (89 p.)Pitt poetry seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8229-5931-3 ""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, 1884â€?1961""; ""Subject / Matter""""The Miniaturists""""Great Sleeps I Have Known""; ""Summerâ€?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""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 legPitt poetry series.PoetryPoetry.811/.54Becker Robin1951-1095003MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789371203321Domain of perfect affection3821545UNINA